Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Who Gets to Be "Civil" and "Rebellious"?

The Left in Israel always presume that ipso facto, they are right and the Right is wrong. It's not only double standards. They really don't read what they write or listen to what they themselves say.

Here's a letter of mine that appeared in the Jerusalem Post of Wednesday, April 6:-

Whose norms?

Sir, - Nachman Shai foresees a new normalcy, one in which there is room for a "spirit of [...] civil rebellion" such as in the fight for medications and the students' battle ("The coming new normalcy," April 3). According to Shai, in adopting the disengagement, Israel has "created this reality, and will need to live by its new rules."

Can we assume that civil rebellion would also be acceptable to prevent the disengagement plan, which many feel will not bring us a new reality but simply will renew the old normalcy of security problems, including Arab terror, a weakened Israel, threatened water resources and a diluted Zionist spirit?

Or are the "new rules" only to be set by Shai and fellow disengagement supporters?

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