Does the Jewish state's government act as they do out of fear or conviction?

From October 26-30, a mob of Druse villagers in Peki'in in the Galilee launched what has all the markings of a pogrom against the four Jewish families in the village. They burned their cars and surrounded and torched their homes.

The police took a full day to come to the Jews' defense. And when they did, the Druse mob kidnapped a policewoman and only set her free in exchange for their cohorts who had been arrested. The police then set about evacuating the Jews from their encircled homes and did nothing to prevent their homes from being destroyed by the mob.

The question that arises is whether the leftist-dominated Knesset and the Olmert government act as they do out of fear or conviction. This question is given increased urgency as the Olmert government, under intense pressure from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice moves closer to officially committing Israel to surrender Judea and Samaria and large swathes of Jerusalem including the Temple Mount to the Palestinian Authority. Such a commitment would not merely induce Israel to divest itself of the ability to defend itself while ensuring the establishment of a terror enclave within mortar range of its major cities. Given that the Palestinian state which everyone is so adamant in championing will be an apartheid state which will legally bar all Jews from owning land or acquiring residency or citizenship rights, the Olmert government's acceptance of the demand for Palestinian statehood involves an internalization of the anti-Semitic view which posits that Jews have fewer rights than everybody else.

Good article. A bit long. Hat tip to Nachum Segal who mentioned the article on his show this morning.

ML/NJ

“..out of fear or conviction?”

Do we in the US grant unheard of priviles to Islam out of fear or conviction?

2 posted on 11/06/2007 6:21:49 AM PST by 353FMG (Government is the opiate of the masses.)

Israel is doomed if it continues on this path. Intentionally self destructing as its enemies wait to cut their throats. When you read books about Nero fiddling while Rome burned you see that it is not just a story. It is a historical event that is being repeated.

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4 posted on 11/07/2007 2:35:55 AM PST by SJackson (every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, none to make him afraid,)

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