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January 30, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/guns-metoo-israel-human-rights-and-trump-11548806463

Israel Is Powerful. That Doesn't Make it Wrong

(Wall Street Journal) Benjamin Simon - Why do my peers oppose Israel? Not because college students are anti-Semitic, but because most hold one truth to be self-evident: Powerlessness implies moral legitimacy. The Israelis are powerful; the Palestinians are not. Campus pro-Israel groups often try to portray Israel as a victim, too - of unprovoked aggression from its Arab neighbors. This strategy, however, will fail because Israel isn't powerless. Israel's army is strong and its technology is advanced. But power doesn't automatically imply moral turpitude; and conversely, powerlessness does not guarantee goodness. In other words, might does not make Israel right, but it certainly does not make Israel wrong, either. Indeed, Israel strives for justice and peace. But students can't see that when they allow the popular morality of power to obscure the truth. The writer is a student at Stanford University.

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