Editor:
Jonathan Bernis, president and CEO of Jewish Voice Ministries International, mistakenly sent me a solicitation aimed at fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, This movement he added, “represents a new and destructive tactic in the war on Israel’s legitimacy as a nation state.”
Well there are good reasons to question their legitimacy. First of all their claim rests squarely on the historical accuracy of the bible, which real bible scholars highly doubt. Many have discovered that quite a few biblical passages were not part of the oldest manuscripts and there is no such animal as an original copy. Even if everything in that holy book were true there is no way of proving a relationship between modern Israelis and their biblical counterparts.
Israel was established through force of arms period and maintains that status the same way, with a lot of help from their lap dogs in London and Washington.
From 1915 to 1916 the British High Commissioner in Egypt promised the Sharif of Mecca, Hasayn bin Ali that if the Arabs revolted against the Ottomans, the United Kingdom would agree to honor their independence. Later the UK’s foreign Secretary Arthur Belfour told Walter Rothschild in a letter that, “His Majesty’s government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish People.” Why was the later agreement honored and not the former? Could it possibly have something to do with the fact that the Rothschilds had lots of money but the Arabs didn’t?
If the British were so supportive of a Jewish State why did the Zionist feel they had to terrorize British troops by bombing the King David hotel where they were staying? So Israel started out as a terrorist state killing 91 people and after 67 years they are still at it.
One more little detail for those who like to accuse people of being anti-Semitic, the Palestinians are a Semitic race too.
— Orval Strong, Gerber