April 18, 2011
To the Editor,
Has Democracy Become Israel’s Golden Calf and Are The Gershon Baskins of Israel, the New Golden Calfers
This is a response to the Winnipeg Jewish Review article on Gershon Baskin’s views presented at last month’s J Street Conference: BASKIN OF IPCRI: IF THERE’S NO PALESTINIAN STATE SOON, PA SECURITY FORCES WILL NO LONGER CO-OPERATE WITH ISRAEL – Click here.
The only interest a Jew with a kop would have in this article is to learn, if they did not already know, that Gershon Baskin is just one more left wing useful idiot for the Palestinians. Baskin when asked to explain his reasoning on a number of positions he advanced, he was unable to do so.
His inability to do that, is that his positions asserted are driven solely by his left wing ideology and not by fact, reason and common sense. That ideological flight from reality also marks the views and positions of J Street.
Baskin is a 5th columnist in Israel, like others that Israel tolerates in the name of democracy.
Think about it for a moment.
If any other Western democracy was surrounded by enemy states, such as Israel is, where citizens of those states are daily indoctrinated with hatred for that Western democracy and filled with hate filled dreams for the demise of that state and its people, would that democracy tolerate 5th columnists like Baskin in their midst?
Would we Jews be here today if those Jews losing patience and hope for Moses’ return from Mt. Sinai not only forgot Moses’ teachings, but faith in Hashem and used the opportunity of Moses’ absence, to turn all their fellow Jews away from Moses and Hashem and to instead put their faith and hope in the golden calf they made and whatever God it represented?
Would Moses on his return have been able to win back the Jewish people from their newly chosen path of faith and hope?
Would Moses even have been allowed to live by a people so turned against him and Hashem?
So what saved the Jews at the foot of mount Sinai from turning away from Moses and Hashem?
It was the fact that even with Moses not physically present amongst them, not all Jews were turned away by the golden calfers from belief in Hashem and Moses’ leadership and teachings in the name of Hashem.
Is anti-Israel world opinion based on anti-semitism and the views of those nations and people that tolerate, appease or ignore it to serve their own interests, not like Pharoh’s armies chasing after the Jews to kill many and again enslave the rest?
Has the the Government of Israel’s belief in democracy and the lengths she takes that belief to convince the world that she is the ultimate best of democracies where even the likes of 5th columnists like the Gershon Baskins in her midst are tolerated, not made democracy Israel’s new Golden Calf and enabled those Israelis like Baskin who seek to convince Jews to their views, the new Golden Calfers?
These are questions that each of you should be raising and discussing around your Pesach seder tables tonight and tomorrow night.
Happy Pesach to all.
– Bill Narvey