The relationship Jews have with the Jewish state is as complicated as it is strong
Clashes over the nature of the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the prudence of his efforts to overhaul the nation’s judiciary, the state of democracy in the country – they all are yesterday’s concerns, suddenly, decisively and emotionally put aside in the wake of the weekend attacks on Israel by air and land, gliders and drones, and through tunnels and across porous barriers.
All that disappeared with what Thomas Juneau, a Middle East specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs who for nearly a dozen years was a strategic analyst in Canada’s Department of National Defense, called “a The Jewish Federation of Detroit called for an expression of solidarity and scheduled a mass meeting at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Mich. Massachusetts groups summoned Jews to gather at Parkman Bandstand in Boston Common for the same purpose. Similar events were planned in Richmond, San Diego, Indianapolis and New Orleans.
“This is a horrific, barbaric, unprovoked terrorist attack on civilians and merciless examples of hostage-taking,” said Alan Solomont, emeritus chair of J Street, an American Jewish group that has been critical of Mr. Netanyahu and that advocates a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “There’s no place for this in a civilized world.
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