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March 14, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-taheri030703.asp

Israelis Built, Deserve, Nation

(UPI) Lou Marano- Israelis are entitled to Israel not because of the ancient Jewish commonwealth, and not because of Jewish suffering in Europe, but for the same reasons Americans are entitled to America - because they built it, and what you create is yours, Yale professor David Gelernter said Monday. Rather than stressing its distinctive Jewishness and talking to the world about Jewish history, a better strategy is to explain Israel in its global context, he said. For example, after World War I and World War II, "France didn't care whether Germany loved her, or liked her, or accepted her....It was perfectly reasonable for France to count on eternal menace and to reject as absurd that she make security concessions (such as relinquishing Alsace-Lorraine) in order to get Germany to accept her."

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