Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

BDS leadership doesn’t care at all about the plight or human rights of Palestinians anywhere else in the world—if they did, they might work toward improving the horrifying conditions in overstuffed refugee camps in places like Lebanon or on reforming UNRWA, which enables Palestinians to stay “refugees” for three generations and counting.

Israel grants equal rights to all its citizens, including, of course, the 21 percent of citizens who are Arab.

How can we trust that a sovereign Palestinian state will control its radicals and ensure the safety of Israel if it can’t control its radical groups now?

Even so, in negotiations in 2000 and 2008 Israel did offer the Palestinians the Old City of Jerusalem (excluding the Jewish Quarter) as a capital—and was refused by the Palestinians yet again.

even the most zealous of Jews understand that they need a land, not all of it. The same needs to happen on the Palestinian side.

The problem, as always, starts and ends with education, and this is where I do have a real issue. One of the political deals that’s been cut with the Orthodox parties over the years allows the Charedi community to create its own education system, which is sponsored by the rest of Israeli taxpayers. That system is based on studying the Torah and its

The country as we know it today did not exist. The pioneers made it happen.

Jews are only 2 percent of the United States population, but they are the target of 50 percent of national religion-based hate crimes.

The Jews did not “take Palestine.” There was no Palestine for the taking.