Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
The United Nations, which was born out of the atrocities of World War II, understood what could happen if the Jews didn’t have a place to go should the shit hit the fan. Their agenda, however, has changed throughout the years, leading to a major headache for Israel and a real security risk.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
And this, I later learned, is a very Jew-y thing to do. To keep the old traditions and adapt them to modern times. An ancient text can be the most modern, and the holiest and most pious is also sometimes the most provocative and gutsy. An ancient story, which was kept for generations, can get a new life and, as such, new relevancy.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
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?
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
The Jews did not “take Palestine.” There was no Palestine for the taking.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Anti-Zionism, as benign as some activists would like it to sound, is targeting only one nation on earth. Negating that one nation’s right to have a state, and doing so with vigor, flare, and self-righteousness that should probably be saved for North Korea.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
created a standard to separate legitimate criticism of Israeli policies from antisemitism, and this framework was adopted by the US Department of State in 2010. It is called the 3D test: Delegitimize, Demonize, Double Standard.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Whenever a peace agreement is proposed, it has the same gaping hole—the Palestinian leadership will not include language for “no further demands.”
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
While UNHCR is constantly working on getting the global number of refugees down, with UNRWA the numbers go up, up, up. After the 1948 war, there were approximately 700,000 displaced people. Now UNRWA has 5.6 million “refugees” registered in their books. How is that possible?
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
For the next draft, all references to God were taken out to make it clear, yet again, that this was to be a secular country, not exclusively Jewish, but open to all religions. Ben-Gurion edited the final draft himself on the morning of the declaration, creating the democratic blueprint for the re-created Jewish state.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
wrote a bestselling book about his experience, Radical, and coauthored another, Islam and the Future of Tolerance, with Sam Harris. He is a lion of human transformation, and I am proud to call him a friend.