OPINION:
Does Peter Beinart really expect Zionists to throw in the towel (“Peter Beinart’s one-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians,” Web, July 14)? Does he expect them to accept a binational state in which Jews would soon be in a minority status?
What possible reason could there be for any Jew to want a return to pre-1948 conditions? For 2,000 years, Christians have persecuted Jews. Jews have been looted, expelled and murdered at the whim of their Christian masters. They have been treated as renewable resources to be robbed; then they have been allowed to re-build, only to be robbed again. The Islamic world treated Jews the same way for the past 1,400 years.
There have been two major cataclysms in my lifetime: the Holocaust and the expulsion of 1 million Jews from Muslim lands. Why would any Jew trust that this ingrained pattern will not repeat itself?
Israel serves as a safe haven for Jews. It is also an enormous success. It is a cultural, intellectual and technological dynamo that is attracting immigrants who want (rather than need) to settle there.
The Palestinian Arabs will or will not develop their own state based on the American Peace to Prosperity plan. Israel will move forward. It will not be kicked around. It can take care of itself.
LEN BENNETT
Author, “Unfinished Work: Letters in Defense of Israel, the Jewish People and the Truth”
Deerfield Beach, Fla.
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