{"id":2297,"date":"2015-04-13T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T12:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cameraoncampus.org\/blog\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2017-12-06T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:25:09","slug":"u-chicago-student-time-to-support-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cameraoncampus.org\/he\/blog\/u-chicago-student-time-to-support-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"U Chicago Student: Time to support Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contributed by CAMERA’s Emet for Israel Liaison at the University of Chicago<\/a>, Blake Fleisher. This\u00a0article was\u00a0originally\u00a0published in the<\/em>\u00a0Hill<\/a>, and is reproduced in full below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Miko Peled\u2019s recent op-ed in the Hill,<\/em> titled \u201cTime to give Palestinians their country back,\u201d<\/strong> <\/a>was more rant than reason. Nowhere does he make a single argument for Palestinian Arabs receiving statehood. He presupposes they lost a country of their own, when in fact they largely fled<\/a> British\u00a0Mandatory Palestine between 1947-1949 to avoid being caught in the crossfire of the Arab armies and the Jews.<\/p>\n

Arabs were not systematically expelled.\u00a0 In fact, the Israeli Declaration of Independence<\/a>, adopted in 1948, explicitly states, \u201cWe yet call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its bodies and institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peled attempts to argue three false claims: (1) Israel has a policy of apartheid towards Arabs, (2) Netanyahu played dirty in his recent election campaign and (3) the United States should re-evaluate its ties with Israel.<\/p>\n

Israel does not have a policy of apartheid towards Arabs. In South Africa, the black population was segregated, forced to use different (and unequal) facilities, and banned from voting. Jews and Israeli-Arabs shop in the same<\/em> supermarkets and use the same<\/em> restrooms. Israeli-Arabs vote in elections and have their own political parties. In fact, as a result of the March 17 election, the third largest political bloc party is the Joint List\u2014a coalition of Arab parties. Arabs also serve proudly in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the Supreme Court and in the Israel Defense Forces. Rana Raslan, an Israeli-Arab, won the Miss Israel title in 1999 and represented the nation in that year\u2019s Miss Universe pageant.<\/p>\n

Israel is not free from examples of racism and discrimination, but neither is any other Western democracy. Peled\u2019s claim that Israel is an apartheid state is a blatant falsehood and degrades the reality black South Africans suffered under actual apartheid.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu did engage in rough-and-tumble politics, warning his potential supporters that the opposition was bringing out Israeli-Arab voters \u201cin droves.\u201d Yet the organized \u201canybody but Bibi\u201d coalition reportedly bussed Israeli-Arabs to the polls in pursuit of its goals. Netanyahu is hardly the first politician to use intense campaign rhetoric. American politicians have resorted to arguably stronger methods. Lyndon B. Johnson created a top-secret group to influence the perception of Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign.\u00a0 According to Joseph Cummins<\/a>, author of\u00a0Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises<\/em>, \u201cThey put out a Goldwater joke book entitled\u00a0You Can Die Laughing<\/em>. They even created a children\u2019s coloring book, in which your little one could happily color pictures of Goldwater dressed in the robes of the Ku Klux Klan.\u201d\u00a0 We might not like it, but negative campaigning has become an American specialty, one U.S. consultants have brought to Israel.<\/p>\n

Peled claims that Netanyahu won largely due to publicity from his speech to Congress warning of a bad agreement with Iran over its nuclear program. He compared Netanyahu entering the House of Representatives to \u201cCaesar entering Rome.\u201d However, Netanyahu entered more like a soothsayer telling us to beware a dangerous deal that could leave Iran too close to a nuclear weapons \u201cbreak-out.\u201d He received widespread criticism for making his speech; many Israelis urged him to cancel.\u00a0 Publicity from it cut both ways, but he was well received by many in Congress.<\/p>\n

Peled\u2019s grasp of Middle East realities is shaky. Iran seeks the annihilation of Israel, its \u201cLittle Satan,\u201d as well as\u2014eventually\u2014the United States, the \u201cGreat Satan.\u201d Just a few days ago, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei<\/a> called for \u201cDeath to America.\u201d\u00a0 Peled had the chutzpah to falsely accuse Netanyahu of making \u201cpromises to attack and kill Palestinian civilians,\u201d when the Israeli prime minister has been warning of leaders who actually promise to kill civilians.<\/p>\n

I agree with Peled on one key point: the United States should re-evaluate its ties with Israel\u2014just in a very different way than he suggests. \u00a0We are witnessing dangerous instability in the Middle East.\u00a0 Iran is pursing a nuclear program and vying to dominate \u201ca Shiite crescent\u201d currently stretching through Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.\u00a0 There is now a Salafi-jihadist \u201ccaliphate\u201d in parts of Iraq and Syria, increased terrorism in the Sinai Peninsula, \u201cHamastan\u201d in Gaza, and a chaotic Libya.\u00a0 Contrary to Peled\u2019s views, Israel is the shining star of freedom in a region largely devoid of it. It is time for America to support Israel even more.<\/p>\n

Fleisher studies linguistics and Near Eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the Middle East and violent non-state actors.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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