Saving Israel: How the Jewish People
Can Win a War That May Never End
by Daniel Gordis
Highly Recommended
The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony
Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average
Israelis are wondering if they wouldnt be better off somewhere else. A
country which once restored hope to Jews world-over now feels itself
slipping. Increasingly, Israelis wonder how much has really been
accomplished and whether they ought to persevere. Can Israel win the
next military war for survival, whomever the foe? Can Israel defuse the
demographic time bomb of a growing Arab population? Can Israel, a
country that’s come so far and sacrificed so much, keep up the will to
fight? Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the
cause, and in Saving Israel, he outlines how. Gordis has written many
popular personal essays and memoirs in the past, but Saving Israel is a
full-throated call to arms. Never has the case for defending -- no,

celebrating -- the existence of Israel been so clear, so passionate, or so
worthy of wholehearted support. Daniel Gordis (Jerusalem, Israel) is
Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center, and a columnist for the
Jerusalem Post. he has also written for the New York Times, Tikkun, the
Forward, and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of several
books, including Coming Together, Coming Apart and If a Place Can Make
You Cry.
Personal Review: Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can
Win a War That May Never End by Daniel Gordis
In this pivotal contribution to the discussion about Israel's struggle for
survival and that country's nature, Daniel Gordis takes the bull by the horns
and grapples both with the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing
Israel today as well as how Israel can win what seems to be an unwinnable
struggle to survive in these frightening and sombre days.
Israel, Gordis argues needs to rediscover it's Jewish roots and values
while reconnecting faith with nationhood.
The last decade has made it painfully clear that 'Palestinian nationalism'
has no interest in working towards statehood and a better life for the
Palestinian people but is solely aimed at the destruction of Israel.This
glaring fact destroys the illusion that territorial compromise can bring the
conflict to an end.
The issue is not Palestinian statehood but Israeli statehood.
Gordis points out that the so-called "Intifada" of 2000-2005 was not at all a
"popular uprising" that the international media had fooled the world into
believing but was rather a terror war launched by and orchestrated and
directed by terror chief Yasser Arafat and the PLO leadership.in defiance
of Israel's right to exist.
These realities can be further explored in such excellent works as Right to
Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars, Myths and Facts: A Guide to the
Arab-Israeli Conflict, History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian
Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression,The Rape of Palestine and the
Struggle for Jerusalem and Israel: Life in the Shadow of Terror.
Every time Israel withdraws from land this has the polar opposite result to
the peace Israel intends to bring about by doing so. Israel's Arab enemies
see this as a sign of weakness and respond with further aggression.
The 2000 comprehensive peace offer by Ehud Barak to the Palestinians,
of Judea, Samaria, Gaza and East Jerusalem, resulted in the 2000-2005
Palestinian terror war, and the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, accompanied
by the forced removal of Gaza's 20 000 Jewish residents' led to the
election of the Islamonazi Hamas movement by the Palestinians, the
pounding of Israel by tens of thousands of Kassam rockets and the
kidnapping of Israeli soldiers, finally forcing Israel to retaliate in the 2006
Israel-Hezbollah War and the 2008-2009 war against Hamas.
While Israel has become the scapegoat of the world, and the victim of such
bottomless and venomous hatred across the world, this has been

compounded by the abandonment of Israel by Israel of many diaspora
Jews. A recent survey revealed that a full 50% of American Jews under the
age of 35 said that Israel's destruction (and the accompanying annihilation
of Israel's Jews) would NOT be a personal tragedy.
Add to this the overwhelming support of American Jews for Barack
Obama, whose attitude to the Jewish state verges on open hostility and
whose ruthless pressure of Israel to act against her own survival, together
with a determination to ingratiate the USA with the Islamic world, including
it's most radical elements including Iran and Syria.
The denial of Israel's right to exist, not only by Islamic extremists, but also
by a myriad of left wing opinion makers such as Tony Judt and Noam
Chomsky, puts the existence of Israel in very real danger. This is because
delegitimization and demonization paves the way for physical annihilation,
as we saw with the Holocaust.
This is already leading the world (including the Obama administration) to
refuse to take action to prevent Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons,
especially in the face of Iran's bloodthirsty President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad's determination to "'wipe Israel off the map"
Many diaspora Jews, (and even some Israelis) are comfortable with the
idea of Jews and defenceless victims, rather than as a strong nation,
always ready to fight for survival whenever the need may be.
Gordis puts forward the premise that for Israel to survive Israel's people
need to rebuild their will to survive. Secular Jews must rebuild some kind
of connection to their faith and traditions, and religious Jews to the Nation
of Israel as a whole.
Jewish and Zionist values must be imbibed and Jews need to realize that
warfare in defence of survival of the Jewish people is not in contradiction to
Jewish values but rather a necessity according to Judaism, given the fact
the fact that the alternative would mean national suicide and a second
Holocaust.
Israel is the embodiment of Jewish survival, Jewish recovery, Jewish being
and the Jewish future. Jews in Israel and the diaspora need to embrace
this and rediscover a sense of people-hood for Israel and world Jewry to
survive. Israel cannot simply be the recreation of a mini-America, but must
be governed according to Jewish norms and values.
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