Does violation of human and property rights not count?
Prof. Paul Eidelberg had some interesting things to say recently on TheRaphi.Com:
If any politicians do not start to tackle the really meaty Q&As of the subject, then all they're doing is going a short, otherwise unimpressive distance in the quest for justice.
Netanyahu would be advised to start taking not just Eidelberg's, but even his very own father's arguments into consideration. He'll make a much better impression and impact that way on public opinion, and provide much more food for thought.
Update: I think that for now, Eidelberg can rest assured that, as pointed out in this entry on One Jerusalem's blog, Netanyahu has indeed spoken about the wrongs of expulsion, as I found when checking it again:
"Benjamin Netanyahu has resigned from the cabinet. On what grounds? He said that Sharon’s disengagement plan will undermine Israel’s security. Unlike his father, Prof. Benzion Netanyahu, he did not say Sharon’s plan is immoral, a crime. Why not? Isn’t it a crime to expel Jews from their homes and farms? Isn’t it a crime to destroy their schools and synagogues? Isn’t it a crime to tear babies from the arms of their mothers? Isn’t it a crime to move a family with six children from a 200 meter home and squeeze them into a 40 meter prefab? Isn’t it a crime to make survivors of the Holocaust once again displaced persons? Isn’t it a crime to make settlers here and there homeless? Isn’t a crime to give Jewish land to Arab terrorists? Isn’t this crime defined as treason by the Penal Code?"Eidelberg's got a very valid point. Security does count, but then, so do human and property rights. To say nothing short of being an act of treason.
If any politicians do not start to tackle the really meaty Q&As of the subject, then all they're doing is going a short, otherwise unimpressive distance in the quest for justice.
Netanyahu would be advised to start taking not just Eidelberg's, but even his very own father's arguments into consideration. He'll make a much better impression and impact that way on public opinion, and provide much more food for thought.
Update: I think that for now, Eidelberg can rest assured that, as pointed out in this entry on One Jerusalem's blog, Netanyahu has indeed spoken about the wrongs of expulsion, as I found when checking it again:
He argued that this government did not have a mandate to throw Jews from their homes and to reward the terrorists. He also referred to Condi Rice's recent proposal to give guns and ammunition to Palestinian terrorists when he said, "we are once again talking about giving them guns, it is unbelievable... the Disengagement strengthens Hamas and it leads to them eventually reaching Jerusalem."Very well said.
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