THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE by Francisco Gil-White has been expanded into a five part series.
Israpundit recently posted Tovia Singer’s interview of Gil-White. I had a discussion with him today in which I expressed my difficulty in thinking of our leadership so darkly.
He reminded me that during the Greek occupation we had our Jewish Hellenists. During the Roman occupation we had our priestly class in bed with the Romans. In both cases the Jewish people rose up and took their future into their own hands.
Similarly Jewish leadership was far from blameless in not doing more to rescue Jews. In fact they worked against it.
They got us into the disastrous Oslo process.
Now Jewish leadership has worked to demonize Israelis living in J & S, otherwise known as settlers, and persecuting them. Just look at Amona. The establishment including the media, academia and the GOI is planning to get Israel to withdraw. This is so even when the Jewish masses oppose such withdrawal.
If we have learned anything from Jewish history it is that we shouldn’t trust our leadership. They do not represent the interests of the people.
