February 17, 2011
Sorry, Ms. Sucharov, I will not join in your condemnation of Israel.
I am not distressed by Rabbis who do not want to live next to terrorists, nor saddened by limits placed on the NGOs to prevent them from smearing Israel with lies that are then used around the world to excuse anti-Israelism (now replacing the anti-Semitism of bygone eras) and I am not alarmed by what you have misnamed a lack of democracy because Israel lives in a neighbourhood where there is none and theirs by comparison is utopia.
It seems to me that what you are reflecting is a selfishness ingrained in some Dispora Jews who do not have to live under constant threat and do not have to send their young men and women into harms way against a determined enemy with 50 times more people and supplied with the most sophisticated materiel in the world, including huge shipments from the USA. Your only responsibility, living in a country of peace and prosperity, is to criticize and you do that in a very biased way.
You do not have the same magnitude of responsibility as our Israeli cousins to defend the entire Jewish nation from an Islam that has it written we must be punished and conquered.
Gary Gerofsky
Dundas, ON Canada