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IJU.Gfli'M OF ()\ff{ (;EDOl.!M fl/Arn S!IOULD NOT f}F JN USL \;N!.l'SS IT IS ,4,N ~Ol'rtl AFHlCAN IU-:PRESENTATIV!; THE JEWISH onst-:RVER !J{)l·:s Nor ASS~fMI' !J'\JAVOIDAllLE NECl·:SSJTY. AN!) T!!EN ON!,Y \VJTU AL!. SUll'AO!.E Mti. V TABACK ULSPONS!llll.ITY FOB THE KASll!l\f_~ o~· ANY l'HODllCT. ~-\Fr;t;\iAHOS. W!!!!.E IT,~ 0.'\N(;uis Ml!ST BE fH:CO(;N!ZED AND CON­ 1'0HO.Y.'il!Vi2. R1wdr1w . .foha111wslmrq PtlllUCATlON, OH SEHVJC/ ADVERT!Sf.f) IN ITS f'A(;F.S rl~OLLHJ TO EVHn l'OSSJllLE DEG!~Er-;, Olin GEDOUM Hl·:l'OGNJZE TUAI 2124 SOIJ/11 AIR/61 © COPYRIGHT 2007 ! ·\lfSrll·\LlAN llEl'RIOSl'NTArJVF I DR. A. DINNEN I 77 1>11 rrqn Rood MARCH 2007 I VOLUME XL NO. 2 L,,,,,, /Id/ "" "'" Al llR4111l ..--------~----·-··~·····- M A R C H 2 0 0 7 I YONOSON ROSENBLUM I ISRAELIS LOOK AROUND AND WITHIN, AND DON1llKE HEY SEE I. LOSING HOPE FOR THE has already been convicted of indecent Oren and Yossi Klein-Halevi in the New FUTURE acts, another is under indictment, the Republic. president has been forced to suspend And finally, there is a near univer­ ver since last summer's war in himself pending a criminal indictment, sal recognition that peace with the Lebanon, Israeli society has been the heads of the Income Tax Authority, Palestinians will not be achieved in Eengaged in a process of soul­ the Finance Minister, and the prime this generation, and likely not the next searching unlike anything seen since minister's closest confidante and direc­ one either. A generation of Palestinian the Yorn Kippur War. That process was tor of his bureau are all under investiga­ children has been raised since Oslo to triggered by the inability of the vaunted tion for fraud, and the prime minister believe that the greatest goal for which IDF to provide security for Israeli civil­ himself faces a half dozen various police one can hope is to kill as many Jews ians during the second Lebanese War, investigations, any one of which may be as possible. Hamas' control over the and has been exacerbated by a continual enough to force his resignation. Palestinian educational system adds string of revelations about the various Meanwhile, Israelis fret that they may to the brew of virulent Palestinian failures of the military and political soon find themselves in the crosshairs of hatred the even more volatile element echelons by a number of investigatory a nuclear Iran, run by religious fanatics of religion - the belief that, as a matter bodies in the months since the end of who appear convinced that even the of religious duty, every inch of present the war. incineration of millions of their own day Israel must be returned to Muslim Those months have also witnessed citizens would be a double blessing, both sovereignty. an unprecedented string of corruption assuring a speedy entry to paradise for Zionism promised that a Jewish scandals. One former justice Minister those killed and hastening the advent of homeland would provide a safe haven the missing iman. For the first time in for Jews all around the world. But, RABBI ROSENBLUM, WHO LIVES JN JERUSALEM, more than two decades, the Holocaust ad111its Daniel Gordis, who writes from IS A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO The Jewish Observer. is being invoked in Israel's security and the traditional Zionist point of view, it HE IS ALSO DIRECTOR OF THE ISRAELI DIVISION OF AM ECHAD, THE AGUDAT!l ISRAEL-INSPIRED political debates. "The Iranian threat is today often "more dangerous to be EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH EFFORT AN!) MEDIA has returned the Final Solution to the a Jew in Israel than any other place in RESOURCE. heart of Israeli discourse;' write Michael the world." 6 ···--·--· ···-··-- ---~-.. T H E JEWISH OBSERVER Last sumn1er's war forced Israelis ficient resources of will power to carry on proposition that Palestinian security pris- to acknowledge that the IDF cannot the fight and to prevail. The name of the oners are, in fact, political prisoners.
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