This “report” is an insult to the Jewish community. It is hostile, inaccurate, and libelous. If accepted, the church will (again) announce itself as racist, anti-Semitic, and at war with its Jewish neighbors.
First of all, what gives your church the right to dictate to a sovereign nation what it ‘should” or “should not” do? Have you issued reports of this sort to Sudan, China, or Saudi Arabia? When you do, and when you show as much attention to the millions being slaughtered in the Congo and Sudan, perhaps we will listen to your complaints. It takes incredible hubris to think you have any right to tell a democratic U.S. ally under attack by Islamic radicals bent on extermination what you think it has the “right” to do.
Your “report” is so full of factual misrepresentations it's hard to know where to begin. First of all, the 1967 armistice line is not “internationally recognized” by anyone. It was a temporary truce line settled after five Arab nations attacked Israel, an “internationally recognized” nation, in 1948. I don't hear any condemnation of that attack or the two subsequent attacks in 1967 or 1973 that attempted to move that line into the Mediterranean Sea. Your only condemnation is about the fact that Israel won those wars and wasn't eliminated. Who are you to “blame” us for winning a war of annihilation started by the Arabs? Apparently, you'd rather see us dead.
Second, Judea and Samaria are not “occupied.” They are territory originally assigned to Israel in the 1948 "internationally recognized" U.N. partition plan. That territory was captured by Jordan after it attacked Israel in 1948; its Jewish inhabitants were massacred and the few survivors fled. Its recapture in 1967, again in a time of war begun by Jordan and other Arabs, only re-draws the armistice line where the U.N. had declared it to originally be. Israel later offered that territory back to Jordan, which refused to take it. No nation in history until now has ever been criticized for not “giving back” all territory won in a defensive war (Israel already gave the entire Sinai Peninsula and the entire Gaza strip, uprooted tens of thousands of its own citizens, for “peace.” That “peace” brought about 8,000 rocket attacks aimed at civilians).
Third, there already is a “Palestinian” government in both the “West Bank” and Gaza. Both governments have declared war on Israel and have as their charter (the) requirement to kill every Jew on their planet. They are already armed by the U.S. and E.U. And now you want these genocidal governments to have more “internationally recognized” power so they can better attack and massacre their neighbors? Your proposal smacks of genocide. No wonder you are marginalized and ignored.
Fourth, the only mention of Israel's “right” (as you put it) to exist is in a footnote saying that this existence impinges on “Palestinian” existence! Some “right”, as you put it. Aside from the fact that the existence of one person or group of people does not cause the existence of another to be “negated”, this is in no way an independent confirmation of Israel's “right” to exist. And, of course, neither Israel, Jews, nor me personally require your acceptance of our “right” to life. That “right” is given by God, not your church.
I'm not going to waste my time by continuing; it would take hours. Suffice to say that your proposed “report” is a racist, anti-Semitic document, as (is) your attempt to (illegally) boycott Israel. The Jewish people completely reject your self-declared “right” to tell us whether and how to live, especially as adopting your suggestions would be suicide. You should be ashamed of yourself by promoting this hateful attack on Jews.
Kerry Hurwitz
Boston, Mass.
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