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November 10, 2021

Israel Doesn’t Need External Pressure to Maintain Its Democratic and Moral Values

Going hunting without an accordion.

Dan Schueftan recently received a challenge from a fellow Israeli liberal. “Imagine,” his interlocutor said, “how Israel would behave if human-rights organizations did not exist, or if international groups turned a blind eye,” his implication being that whatever these organizations’ flaws and excesses, they provide an important check on the Jewish state. Nonsense, says Schueftan, and not only because of the moral bankruptcy of such groups as the once-noble Human Rights Watch or the always-corrupt UN Human Rights Council:

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