When The Palestinian Authority is taken over by Hamas, which an eventual election would certainly see, what possible peace can there ever be? How foolish the withdrawal from Gaza now seems. Palestinians will lower their flags to half mast to mark this month’s 104th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration while continuing to call for the destruction of Israel. He also lambasted Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely for her accurate description of the Naqba as “a made-up Arab lie”.ĭoes Mr Brummer forget that when David Ben Gurion announced the rebirth of the Jewish state, in accordance with the wishes of the international community, six Arab countries attacked? As the head of the Arab League said at the time: “The war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and Crusades.” He opposed the passing of the 2018 Nation-State Law reaffirming Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, claiming it is discriminatory against its Arab citizens, despite Arabs being better off in Israel than any Arab country. Mr Brummer, in contrast, seems to do Israel down. Get The Jewish News Daily Edition by email and never miss our top storiesĪs someone whose refugee parents lost dozens of family members in the Shoah, I consider the real memorial to be Israel, born out of the ashes of the Holocaust, in defiance of antisemites everywhere.

The memorial has been opposed by distinguished Jews, among others, because the eyesore structure of 22 fins (pictured) would destroy a small, much-loved space and the familiar view of Parliament, without reminding anyone of the Shoah.

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