What would happen if Israel stopped fighting the world?

Assuming Israel were to be defeated and its Jews forced to lose their racial dominance there, how would that in any way affect the majority of the world's Jews who live elsewhere? Would a Canadian Jew be any less safe?

Great article!!

Does this writer feel safe under the protection of his fellow Jews, sure sounds like it. What the writer doesn't realize is that only a strong Israel can protect him. That he can go and enjoy his holiday in Egypt is because of a strong Israel. The writer provides false hope. How many Egyptians have visited Israel during any of their holidays? There is no mutual respect nor desire otherwise you'd see some Egyptian visitors in Israel and you don't. As for your comments on Gaza could the writer please inform us of which of the 10,000 rockets fired at Israel did he find the most peaceful. It's really incredible that some "news" papers write the stupidest things. Tabloid news at it's fines here.

What if the Palistinians officially recognized Israel and stated openly to the world that they wanted peace and made reasonable demands on the major issues. What if they made the first real move? There would be overwhelming pressure on Israel to sit at the table and make peace.

I totally agree with you moshe. It is the way to go to see if we can ever achieve peace.

"Spreading horror" isn't just something that other states do, it's what Israel does. It isn't a "widespread, familiar practice" of other "regimes"--it's a widespread, familiar practice of your regime. And that's exactly why the rest of the world has lost patience: Israel has become the nation it claims its enemies are. The hypocrisy--including that in the comments on this thread--is just astounding. While I agree with the author's sentiment, the world needs more than small gestures. Israel's leftists go on holiday to Sinai, while Gaza continues to burn.

Has anyone noticed recently, that Hamas has lost control over some other radical goups in Gaza? That's the result of the permanent indoctrination of palestinian children by tv stations as HAMAS TV (among others). Dreams are helpful for keeping up hope, but there's no short and easy way to fulfill them.

or may be not... Let's rewind history to 1937... Jewish people do not resist the world... and... travel by oven very quickly... from Europe to better places.

The are all a right skug lot, these israeli zionsit jews. Your preference for Zionism, is most telling, Linthwaite. Ah, how the coin flips to the other side, rancid, Zionist.

Gideon Levy is as usual the voice of reason. Too many Israelis hark back constantly to the past, sometimes 62 years, sometimes thousands of years. The present never seems to interest some of these people. So strong is the paranoia that they suffer a collective amnesia. Israelis need to update their views on Arab intentions declared in 1948. Since that, Egypt and Jordan, sworn enemies of Israel, have initiated exchanges which resulted in peace on those borders. To ignore this and continue ranting betrays a great deal of deceit. In 2003 and 2007 the Arabs offered a peace deal which a country desiring peace would not have ignored. To reject peace based on fairness and then moan about being unloved is silly really. The rejection has to be seen as a wish to continue this imperial mission which dooms the future of this country.

"What would happen if Israel stopped fighting the world?" the title of the article should read: What would happen if Israel stopped fighting FOR the world? - THERE WOULD BE NO MORE DEMOCRACY NOR A FREE WORLD!!!!

You made a mistake, my "friend" when you stated that you are writing from Londinium You ARE writing from Londonistan.

You and I know that the Palestinians are free to go anytime they want to leave Israel. The problem is not Israel who's holding them back; the problem comes from the coward Arab countries that want to use and abuse them to stay to fight Israel. Now who's the bad guy? Not Israel. Some smart pals would not listen to this horrible dictature and leave for their ancestral countries such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt for good where they can better themselves.

See Stephen King's "Shawshank Redemption" for explanation.

Posted: "If Israel stopped fighting the world, they would not be rejected around the world as they increasingly are..Already in the US, US/Israeli dual citizens are being denied bail for their crimes and are being denied security clearances..." llene, Israelis and Isreal do not give a damm about what other people think of them. Israel has been doing whatever it wants to do for the past 60 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to stop Israel or punish Israel for their crimes against the Palestinian people. Israel will continue to do so, as long as the USA government continues to support the Israeli governement by sendin billions of dollars and aid each year to Israel. This support allows the Israeli government to continue with it's criminal actions. Stop this support and you will see how quickly Israel will end the occupation, return the lands it stole from the Palestinains and beg the Palestinians to sign a peace treaty. Until that happeneds nothing will change.

this article is another anti-intellectualism from the pen of gideon levy should we give up hope?

Israel has gone too far with its disdain for its allies, the Arabs and the Palestinians. It has a sense of God-given superiority. Zealots will always rationalize their own righteousness regardless of the realities. Too many Israelis have bought into the Netanyahu-Lieberman-Sharon-Ultra Orthodox view of the world and supported vicious campaigns to attack any Jew or otherwise that speaks truth and justice. It is now incumbant upon the world, led by the Quartet and the UN to impose justice through economics, UN declarations of independence for Palestine and preparedness to deploy peacekeeping forces to protect the Palestinians.

Correct. Ariel Sharon in many of his many speaches declared that he wanted to completely destroy all Palestinians. Netanyahu wants to do the same and other past Israeli leaders wanted to do the same also. The Israeli government is full of racist leaders who if given the chance would completely wipe off the whole Palestinian population.

"The Palestinians are free to go to wherever they are accepted." - Jasper Sort of. Actually Israel controls the borders of Gaza and the West Bank. I do hope that if some nation(s) were to offer refuge to the Palestinians that Israel would allow them to emigrate and pay for their property. Those Nations which did offer refuge to Palestinians in 1948 were less than charitable in their accommodation.

"i think that you are right, but if the Palestinians were to go (where?) they would never be allowed to come back..." - John Spear Too true. With so much of the world so wept with compassion for the Palestinians, and with the world unwilling to act to help the Palestinians have their own state; I must ask which nations are willing to take them in? Israel must eventually exterminate them, either slowly by dispossession and oppression, or in a final solution. There is no chance given a resolute Israel and a cowardly world that the Palestinians can avoid extinction unless the emigrate.

Posted: "Gideon, not only take a trip, but remain there as well" I think it is you and the rest of your settler friends who need to pack up and take a trip back to whatever rock you all crawled out from under. You settlers are no more than a cancer to Israel and the whole world. You are the reason we do not have peace. You are the reason there is so much misery in this region and people can not live in peace bacause of your tormented, Zionist, racist views and action. GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND MAY THE WORLD NEVER HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN !!!

One which never would have crossed my mind in 1967. Back then Israelis did not think of the entire world as their enemy.

If Israel stopped fighting the world, they would not be rejected around the world as they increasingly are. The costs of the fighting are going to be increasingly felt as trade sanctions tighten and the ability of Israelis to travel and emigrate starts to be restricted. Already in the US, US/Israeli dual citizens are being denied bail for their crimes and are being denied security clearances to work in the US government or in sensitive positions. It will get worse. No Israeli nuclear scientist can even get a visa to study in the US anymore. Ouch.

Are we not tired of killing one another? We need the Arabs and they need us. Yes, they need Jews. We are good for their economy and with the exception of the Hamas and our own radical Rabbis and other nutjob radicals, we can get along. It is Bibi and his crowd that wishes to keep control via violence, also the radical Hamas factions. Both need to go.

Posted: "Look how far the Jews have evolved, from the tragedy of the Shoah and contrast that with an Arab population living in the distant past...The Arabs have bought their problems onto themselves..." The reason the Palestinians are living the way they live is because Israel stole everything from them andf occupy them. Israel's occupation for the past 60 years and the constant bombing of the Palestinian homes, schools, farmlands etc. is the reason why the Palestinians live like they do. They are not given the chance to evolve as you say. The only reason that Israel has evolved is because it gets billions of dollars from outside which helps it continue the occupation and evolve in other ways. I agree with you about the fact that the other Arab States haven`t lifted a finger to help their brethren. but that does not give Israel the right to steal lands and torture the Palestinians. Give them the chance to create their own state and they will evolve just like Israel did.

duh!!! middle east and europe will be run by 'muslim militants', USA will live in fear of the majority rising way above the USA 'minority'. World Domination and El Keider and all the 'moderate militants' will run the world. We won't be able to call them islamist though as muslims don't like to be call that.

"What I cannot understand is how Israelis today can refuse to Let the Palestinians go?" [Lincoln] The Palestinians are free to go to wherever they are accepted. There are 195 countries in the world. Certainly among them are some that will take them in. After all, they are such nice folks. hmmm. Well, the is ..... hmmmmmm. Maybe Lincoln has a good question there.

Walter commented that Hamas wants Israel destroyed. Messages from many Hamas leaders including the military wing hint at the movements willingness to accept a Palestinian state on the Pre-1967 borders. This is very different from wanting Israel destroyed. On the other hand Israel both wants the Palestinians destroyed and are actively doing the business of destruction.

Gideon, not only take a trip, but remain there as well

Thanks for the good thought.

Mr. Levy is of the opinion that "infused" fear is an obstacle to the good life (read Passover family vacations and Middle East peace) for Israelis. Just step outside Israel to see the ominous changes in life for Jews around the world. While Israeli travelers luckily did well in Turkey and Cairo this time, Jewish students in Canadian universities get attacked by machetes. An anomaly, for sure, but one that was simply incomprenensible during my lifetime until very recently. Your Israeli fear is realistic, completely legitimate and should be as a beacon of pre-emptive action as the spectre of anti-Semitism (now cleverly camouflaged by Anti-Zionism) is progressing in manners many of my Boomer generation in the galut finds horrifying and breathlessly surreal. Fern Smiley

What would happen if you stopped putting the onus on Israel for everything that goes bad in the Middle East? Is it Israel's fault that the Palestinians have rejected every generous peace offer ever made to them without counteroffer since 1947? Is it Israel's fault that Hamas and Hezbollah are dedicated to its destruction as they are armed by Iran and Syria? I do recall what happened when Jews were not trying to "fight the world" in the 1930s. But that's another story.

You seemed unwilling to understand. It is indeed nonesense to argue that Israel sovereign territory in 1948 was not attacked, therefore.....Israel reaction was....what? an agression??? It sounds like "Hitler never said that Jews would be sent to concentration camps." Israel tiny community was under permanent attack by arab thugs and since declaration of independence threatened by arab countries armies intention to invade. This is a clear 'casus bellis' which Israel responded elegantly and succesfully. Israel's war was not condemned by the UN, and territories beyond partition which were acquired by war, are accepted as integral part of Israel by the International Community. Sorry to inform you, but the ths UN does not demand Israel to go back to partition "sovereign" lines. The only debate nowadays is about post-67 borders. Part of them might be annexed as well, after negotiations.

The world would do what is has normally done to Jews, endanger them.

an agenda to wipe Israel off the map . I challenge you , Read any Arab leaders speech from 1948 and on . Now they realized that it is not politically correct That time they felt they have a chance . Now they trying every other method but realizing that militarily it is hopeless to do the same . Now their only hope is terror , Hasbollah with thousands of missiles aimed at Israel and of course Iran , who still openly states the politically incorrect purpose of nukes . So what you are talking about , MR.Levy ?

...Give Peace A Chance John Lennon

All the Arab problems are richly deserved. Look how far the Jews have evolved, from the tragedy of the Shoah and contrast that with an Arab population living in the distant past. The Arabs have bought their problems onto themselves, and the other Arab States haven't lifted a finger to help their brethren. I think they actually prefer the Palestinians live in squalor and ghettos.

I was in TA and sow a demonstration of Gideon's extreme left party carrying symbolic coffins protesting the death of Arabs in Israel's anti-terror operations , while totally neglected to mention dead Jews blown up by those same Arabs . I was shocked !

Where are all the people in Israel thinking like Gideon Levy. If they were quite a few, peace could have been achieved long time ago. Shame that they are too few. Keep on Gideon and promote the path to peace

unless you are Gideon Levy who can pack his bags in a minute notice . We can not forget the terror of this decade and it was stopped only because Israel regained some of balls needed to handle those savages . But they never stopped trying and if chances arise G..d forbid , there will blow up buses , dance halls , Sabarro as they did before . And if it would be up to the world , nobody would care for spilled Jewish blood as they did not care before . As for vacations , for Arab/Muslim world money talks , but Israelis are stupid to go there .

""PERHAPS we could live with an Iranian nuclear bomb, without initiating an attack. PERHAPS withdrawing from the Golan isn't as dangerous as they tell us. PERHAPS lifting the Gaza blockade will be good for Israel, and recognizing Hamas will be a blessing."" A lot of PERHAPSES..........

Posted: "..Your trying to blab that the Arabs in 48 and 47 were not trying to annihilate the Jewish presence?...In 1929,..ethnic cleansing of Hebron of Jews?" What about the daily killings of Palestinian men, women and children by the Israeli army that has been going on for over 60 years? Not to mension the torture they suffer at the hands of the Israeli army. What about the cutting of their electricity and water supplies? What about the destruction of their farm lands, stopping medical and other aid that they need? By the way, the killings that you are talking about in 47, 47, 1929 and the ethnic cleansing, are all a retaliation as a result of the actions taken by Menachem Begin and all of his terrorist groups, who were killing Palestinians forsing them out of their homes. The Palestinians did not wake up one day and decide they wanted to kiss Jews, they had a reason for fighting Jews. They are fighting for their freedoms and rights just like we did against the British.

Posted: "...We will not risk the Golan, Iran having nuclear weapons, or allowing terrorist to travel freely to amuse a curious whim of yours that things might turn out ok while in the past this has never been the case." But you will risk Israeli and Palestinian lives by supporting Israel's land thefts and occupation and the crimes the Israeli government is committing. As mighty or as smart as you think you are, or Israel is, or America is, none of you will be able to stop the Palestinians from regaining their freedom, lands or creating a state of their own, or Iran having nuclear power, or any other nation that strives to rid itself from leaders that serve America and Israel's interests. Those days of American and Israeli domination in the Middle East are soon coming to an end. For Israel's sake I hope by then it will not be too late to achieve peace, but it looks that way right now.

If Israel stop fighting the world? : good things would happen!

It is a simple equation: AS MUCH YOU RESPECT YOUR NEIGHBOURS , YOU WILL BE RESPECTED. THE ISRAELIS BEGAN TO KNOW THAT HISTORICAL FEAR FROM ,NON JEWS, is groundless.

Peace would happen !!!

painful

Hmmmmmm.Your trying to blab that the Arabs in 48 and 47 were not trying to annihilate the Jewish presence? Guess the 47 attack on Gush Etzion and subsequent killing of all but 4 people was a 'fluke'? Starvation of the Jewish city of Jerusalem in 48 didn't involve any civilians? In 1929, the subsequent killing and ethnic cleansing of Hebron of Jews ? I think your just one of those who are not happy that Jews are no longer your Dhimmi's.

respect international law, implement the numerous UN resolutions and peace will follow. PEACE to all.

Can't you see that you are exactly like someone depicted in Levy's article? As you well know, the administration of Israel campaigns for an attack against Iran, not the other way around. Iran has not initiated war in the last 300 years. Like many others in contemporary Israeli society, you are turning reality completely on its head.

Your comparison to slavery hits new insanity. There are twenty other countries your buddies can move to. There, the gates are WIDE open, nobody's holding anybody against their free will, No Slavery. Jordan would be a good place, for starters. Let me clue you in, Lincoln. The other Arab countries want nothing to do with the Palestinians, and the ones that do, keep them holed up in refugee camps. Doesn't that speak volumes about the "slaves" ???

A Live Chicken Than,,, A Dead Duck. Got it ??

"Perhaps we could live with an Iranian nuclear bomb...". Are you serious Gideon? Gee, I wonder what they plan on doing with it? "Perhaps withdrawing from the Golan isn't as dangerous as they tell us". What did Syria do with the Golan last time they had it? "Perhaps lifting the Gaza blockade will be good for Israel, and recognizing Hamas will be a blessing." Hamas wants Israel DESTROYED! Meanwhile, Iran issues threats against Israel and Hamas lobs rockets into Siderot. Yet, the Int'l community condemns Israel for (drum roll please)...building housing units!!

There is no such thing as compromise of freedom and justice in the name of security. More often than not, "security" is another name for Orwellian state terrorism, worse than the opposition to that same terrorism exercised by the Palestinians in the name of freedom. Levy, as always, is right.

So Peter SM, you mention a blockade on Jerusalem in which nothing was allowed through. I take it that by mentioning this, you feel this was an inapropriate action ie: blockade without allowing anything through? If this was the case and civilians were harmed to the point that the laws of war were violated, me personally, I think such an action would have been inappropriate and so very wrong. I hope we agree on this point. And if we agree on this, surely you also agree that the siege of Gaza is also inappropriate and very wrong? Peter SM, I'd expect to see you joining peaceful public protests against the Gaza siege.

"... the Arab war of annihilation " Read the OFFICIAL Arab League Declaration on the Invasion of Palestine. (remember, Israel was no longer a part of Palestine May 15th 1948) No mention of annihilation, genocide or even a threat to Israel. Nil Nada Nought None. It puts the legal case for going to the defense of the non-state entity of Palestine. There' no condemnation by the UNSC because the Arab League had a right to defend the territories slated for the new Arab states from Jewish forces already outside of newly declared Israel. "What do YOU call targetting &killing mostly civillians all over Israel?" That's terrorism m'dear. It's something some folk resort to when all else has failed them. It's not attacking Sovereign territories. It's attacking the civilians of the usurper. "Dont be shy,you just keep coming up with the same "smart" question" It hasn't ever been answered.. "They were sent packing..." Actually, they prevented Israel from taking Gaza and the West Bank

Why did they & their fellow travellers not demand a Pal state on the WB Gaza & Jerusalem from their Arab brothers when they had it all.? Which part of its all sacred Waqf from the river to the sea & obliterate Israel by Islam cant you understand?

in the ME and around the world? "Kill the Boers" from the ANC youth leader.Given the VIP treatement in Zimbabwe. What message is that? Wellcome to the World cup.We love each other in S.A and so we want the world to follow in our footsteps from the moral highground? Would you like the world to ignore that as well?

And while I agree that it would be good if Israeli's stopped fighting the world with Egpyt a pliable puppet with Israel and the US pulling the strings to starve to death the people of Gaza the notion that Israeli's go to Egypt is actually quite sickening.

eg the fedayun who were set up after the Arab war of annihilation.What do YOU call targetting &killing mostly civillians all over Israel? a peace message? Tell us what you are really trying to say? Dont be shy,you just keep coming up with the same "smart" question. Get over it your side launched a genocidal war,by the public admission of Azzam Pasha head of the Arab league in 1948. Arab "irregulars' had already killed over 1000 Jews and they totally blockaded Jerusalem allowing NOTHING through.They did not give a damn about the borders the just wanted annihilation. They were sent packing,get over it.

It is not that the guy is paranoid (just where he brings these fear mongering assault on the Israeli psychic?! one might accuse he over worked imagination, or his otherwise bonton Shtetl mentality inherited from his East European ancestry), but he would us to believe that if we just do as he sees it, the world would love the Israelis. One is more than free to ellude himself, but please Gideon, don't use the bully pulpit of Haaretz to impress us of your yuddling fabricated reality. As a Moroccan Jew, we might have receive certain faculties to live among our brethren the Muslims-Arabs (with the Berberes, it was more like kinship)freely but with reservations, so we got to know the possibilities as Regan said:"Trust and Verify", which unfortunately was not given t tje peoples from the Shtetl. Gideon, remember that the world didn't rush to the rescue of the Jews-Israelis during the Holocaust, so be careful, but try and integrate yourself in the mentality of the local, where you live.

you are of course welcome here.but consider this.you have been here for many many years heaping abuse upon our heads.what compels you to spend so much of your time telling us just how bad we are? and who else in this wide world do you abuse with this sustained effort?

When Israel produces a prime minister of Gideon Levy's calibre, there will be peace between the 2 peoples. There is a recognition from the Palestinian side that the Jews are going to stay in the land of Palestine. Even Hamas understands this. When the Israelis elect a leader and a goverment who understands that the Palestinians are also going to stay on this land, there is a real chance of peace. Until that happens, the demographics will continually change in favour of the Palestinians, weakening the Israeli position further and further. Its in Israel's interest to reach a just 2 state solution in the very near future. This definitely also fits in with the Palestinian aspirations. Be careful, you have Hamas today, you may have Al Qaeda tomorrow. Hamas is easier to make peace with, no matter what the scare mongers tell you

been attacked?

...if Israel stopped figting the world the world surely stopped to fight Israel (= not the people as a whole but the way Israel behave (settlers, occupations, arabic minority, Gaza ...)

You are so right. Before the western world has been made paranoidic as to the Soviet Union. When this "threat is over", it was needed the new one " the Axel of Evil, though the extremists of Islam are the little minority of the arabic and muslim world.

...because they are used to it. To be aware all the time, to be paranoidic everywhere (looking at the people as a potential terrorist), support the everyday security checkings,to read in the newspapers all the supposed threats of the future..and so on...The stress is "between the ears" even that they notice it...What it could be...to go around "freely"? You notice the diffrence when visiting f.e Europe. It would be wonderful, if the all the positive things of Israel( f.ehigh level culture -music, theatre,dance ,science- technics,medicine and others - and standard of living )would be the "image" of the country also for the foreigners who still are afraid to visit this beautiful country.

assume a benign world or prepare for defense.the latter is the more wise course.our history says so.

I wonder if you might enlighten me as to your quote about Jews. You state '... awful intolerant human beings'. How intolerant can they really be when a Jewish newspaper publishes such comments? Secondly , who is reasonably quick on the scene in disasters such as Haiti, Chile,and New Orleans, perhaps beating your country in the process?

did we fight the european continent in the 1940s?

Well, not at all surprised that this sort of Utopian screed is found here at Israel's only Communist Palestinian Hebrew-English daily, but that said, it's still so full of holes, it wouldn't hold water for more than a few seconds. Because a number of completely detached Israelis (and considering Haaretz's readership numbers, there are apparently plenty) decided to go to Cairo and Turkey, without being savagely slaughtered is this man's basis for declaring that basically all threats against the Jewish State are imagined or overblown? This oozes of such leftist contempt for reality that it could be considered dangerous, that is, if anyone in a position of merit were to actually take it seriously. But no, it's just a little light reading for the detached here in Israel and the very-much engaged over in Europe, all of whom are nodding in agreement with this article, as it serves their personal ethos on a number of varying levels. Gross.

However, you have an entire generation of politicians in Israel whose entire career has been based on peddling fear. As a career in Politics is a very lucrative money spinning scam I cannot see this happening anytime soon. The 'Vote for me I will keep you safe' slogan is very easy to fulfill if there is no real threat apart from the one a politician creates. The 'Vote for me I'll give you a job, free health care' is a bit harder to fulfill. It is like people claiming London is Londonistan when a person I can't mention is there safe. Or Israel's elite are queuing up to live there as it is safe. They peddle fear and hatred because they have no ideas on how to improve the lives of the people. So they keep Israelis scared and therefore malleable. They make up threats so as to justify military spending, They make up threats to ensure money from the United States to keep the economy afloat. It's all a money making scam

In the Divine Comedy, Dante places an inscription reading 'Abandon hope all ye who enter here'. It is placed, without irony, at the gates of hell.

I read your writings almost on a daily basis because we need more people like you to get these idiots (all politicians) to use common sense and stop the Bush scary tactics over and over and over again. I hope you continue to use the power of the pen and more people will listen and put the right people in power in order for all of us to live in peace and Harmony. These politicians do not care about you and me, they only care about their power and keeping that stupid chair. To prove my point. Find me a country in this world that politicians did not stay in power same people all the time if not this term it is 5 or ten years later. In other words same political party with the same ideology and it never changes that is why it is so important to have people like you tell the truth in order to live in peace with our neighbors

The prevailing wisdom among Jews who remember is; there is not a thought or suggestion that the world can offer that is in the benefit of the Jewish people after we witnessed the behavior of nations during the Holocaust. It's the unfortunate truth, and should be remembered as the stability of civilization disintegrates. The opposite of the prevailing schemes and genius plans the world offers is and will always be at the expense of Jewish survival. Sorry to have to break reality to you.

I have no doubt that successive Israeli leaders have used fear to keep themselves in power, and unfortunately it has worked so well that this fear endangers any prospects of peace for this little nation. Fear and suspicion go hand in hand and then the "ghetto mentality" takes hold. Unfortunately, this mentality is growing in the diaspora, and there is a real danger of anti-semitism raising it's ugly head. Not because people are against jews, but because they are awful, intolerant human beings. Moderate Israelis and jews in the diaspora need to take back the dialogue.

i think that you are right, but if the Palestinians were to go (where?) they would never be allowed to come back...

I have no difficulty in understanding Moses when he asks "let my people go.' Exodus 5:1 is most clear. What I cannot understand is how Israelis today can refuse to Let the Palestinians go? Must there be the plagues? Must Israelis be subjected to the murder of every first born child before they will confront their monstrosity? Clearly decency will never suffice to lead Israel to let the Palestinians go. So we are now many thousands of years later yet we have an Israel, no different than Pharaoh, dedicated to destroying and enslaving decent people simply because they want freedom. Clearly Israel is no longer a nation with the least indulgent of decency. Israel has become a monstrosity, oblivious to reality and everything it once opposed. Why?

Gideon, People are only frightened after attacks and since there has not been any recently people have relaxed and are traveling again. This is a good thing one would think. We will not risk the Golan, Iran having nuclear weapons, or allowing terrorist to travel freely to amuse a curious whim of yours that things might turn out ok while in the past this has never been the case.

Thank you, Gideon Levy, for helping to restore our faith in living without fear.

Egypt would make such a nice home for you.