Last night (Wednesday, May 16) Peter Beinart (author of A Crisis of Zionism) and David Suissa (President of The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles) debated before a crowd of 450 people at Temple Israel of Hollywood in Los Angeles the role of the American Jewish community vis a vis Israel, the arguments left and right relative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the challenges to democracy and the Jewish character/demography of the state that a non-resolution of this conflict present. I was honored to moderate the discussion.
You can watch the entire conversation on the Jewish Journal web-site by clicking here – http://www.jewishjournal.com/live_broadcast/article/live_broadcast_suissa_vs_beinart_-_is_zionism_in_crisis_20120511/
I recommend reading Peter’s book as it spells out clearly, factually and historically what has become of the Zionist enterprise and how the American Jewish establishment (i.e. AIPAC, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the ADL, and AJC, among others) and community have changed and evolved over the course of the past 64 years since Israeli statehood.
Though vilified by some on the Jewish and Israeli right for the positions he takes in this book and in other writings, others have praised Peter’s book including President Bill Clinton, philanthropist Edgar Bronfman, former Congressman and Vice-Chair of the 9/11 Commission Lee H. Hamilton, and Naomi Chazan, former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and President of the New Israel Fund.
President Clinton said the following:
“Peter Beinart has written a deeply important book for anyone who cares about Israel, its security, its democracy, and its prospects for a just and lasting peace. Beinart explains the roots of the current political and religious debates within Israel, raises the tough questions that can’t be avoided, and offers a new way forward to achieve Zionism’s founding ideals, both in Israel and among the diaspora Jews in the United States and elsewhere.”
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Thank you very much for organizing this debate. I was fascinated by the audience reactions. How many people attended? Was there any poll of responses? Changes in position?
ONE LAWFUL STATE WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER AS A SOLUTION TO THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
The Congregation of Temple Israel should know that there are actually three solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict. First there is a “one [Arab majority] state” solution, in which the Jewish Israelis would become unwelcome guests in their own National Home, and the Jews in the Diaspora, such as in Toulouse, lose the only place on earth they could go to and not be in a minority. In a conference at Harvard on March 3,4 a one [Jewish majority] solution was excluded. The panel was limited to Arab intellectuals and Israeli history “revisionists”. Professor Allan Dershowitz described it in Newsmax as an “Anti-semitic and Anti-Zionist Hate Fest”.
The second solution is a “two state [temporary] solution” in which the interim solution wo…uld result in the loss of much Jewish and Christian heritage and in the long run would end up as the one [Arab majority] state solution.
The third is one lawful Jewish state based on the San Remo Agreement of 1920 that established the British Mandate for Palestine. It granted the Jews exclusive collective political rights to Palestine, in trust, to vest when the Jews had attained a population majority.
These three solutions are outlined at: http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2012/03/salubrius-three-possible.html.
The details of the San Remo agreement are also on line in a two part op ed that can be seen at:
Part 1: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11408.
Part 2: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11412.
Debunking the Palestine Lie” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U.
Here is a critical review of the two state temporary solution: http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2012/03/remember-quraysh.html Also, it would be helpful to look at what Dr. Daniel Pipes has uncovered about Yassir Arafat and the treaty of Hudibyah, a two-tribe solution that went sour. http://www.danielpipes.org/316/al-hudaybiya-and-lessons-from-the-prophet-muhammads and
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/1999/09/arafat-and-the-treaty-of-hudaybiya-updates
Only the first two alternatives were presented to the Temple Israel Congregation..