The 20th century philosopher Hannah Arendt said that early Zionists were the only Jews to find political solutions to the community’s weaknesses, but in doing so they had become “pariahs” within the community. .
She contrasted the Zionist “pariah” leaders with what she called the “parvenu” elite, especially within European Jewish communities, who feared that Zionism would destroy their tenuous ties to the regime. I let it happen.
In the United States, too, Zionists were a minority within the American Jewish community until the beginning of World War II, when, seeing the reality of the Holocaust, they realized that the only way to save the Jewish people from destruction was to American Jews were convinced that the goal was to create a Jewish state to control the Jewish people. It could save refugees that the rest of the world was unwilling to accept.
What was once the cause of a “pariah” minority has since become a mainstream cause.
That history is important when considering the difficult situation Israel faces today.
Hamas launched a war against Israel on October 7 with a horrific terrorist attack that the terrorists hoped would inspire the Arab and Islamic worlds to rise up and destroy the Jewish state.
Although that did not happen, Hamas succeeded in stirring up international hostility against Israel in the West, especially on university campuses where the emerging generation is steeped in anti-Israel propaganda.
Additionally, Hamas used Palestinian civilians as human shields and installed weapons and tunnel entrances throughout Gaza, forcing Israel to wage wars that endangered civilians and destroyed the urban landscape.
Israel was surprisingly cautious. For example, the two-week battle at Shifa Hospital killed 200 terrorists but not a single civilian. But it has also made mistakes, including this week’s tragic death of seven World Central Kitchen employees.
The Biden administration has supported Israel’s right to arm it and protect it from terrorism.
But in recent weeks, President Joe Biden has criticized Israel’s war effort in harsh terms, often echoing false propaganda from anti-Israel activists. In doing so, he hopes to win back Arab-American and Muslim-American voters in key battleground states, as well as pressure Israel to align with him to achieve broader foreign policy goals. It is said that
Biden, like Barack Obama before him, is trying to appease the Iranian regime, which provides funding and arms to most terrorist organizations in the Middle East. He also believes that a Palestinian state is the key to peace, despite evidence to the contrary.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, like most Israelis from right to left, opposes these policies. So Biden is doing everything he can, overtly and covertly, to sideline Netanyahu and hope for a more flexible leader.
As a result, Israel will become isolated. Biden has used tragedies like the World Central Kitchen deaths to highlight Israel’s isolation by falsely blaming Israel for Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. Biden, like Hamas, has called for an “immediate ceasefire” and may allow the United Nations to declare a Palestinian state.
If Israel wants to overthrow Hamas by annihilating the last Hamas battalion in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, it may have to do so without U.S. support.
Similarly, when Israel fights Iran directly or in Syria or Lebanon, it fights alone. The White House has hinted that Israel could win back Prime Minister Netanyahu’s support by ousting him, but Israel would do so at the cost of its independence.
The price of survival may be that Israel has to become a pariah, at least in the near future. Although unfortunate, this is not the fate Israel should fear. And Israel will always have friends among true lovers of freedom and faith.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday Sunday nights from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT) on Sirius XM Patriot. He is the author of a recently published e-book.The Zionist conspiracy (and how to join it)‘ is now available on Audible. He is also the author of an e-book. Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 US Presidential Election. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpolak.
