{"id":145,"date":"2012-06-05T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2021-01-14T21:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:13:24","slug":"israel-from-modern-hatred-to-biblical-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/en\/israel-from-modern-hatred-to-biblical-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\/ From Modern Hatred to Biblical Prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p>Michelle Mazel&apos;s reviews my latest essay on Israel for the Jewish Political Studies Review.<\/p>\n<style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:GaramondPremrPro;\n\tpanose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n\tmso-font-alt:Cambria;\n\tmso-font-charset:77;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-format:other;\n\tmso-font-pitch:auto;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) publication, the Jewish Political Studies Review (JPSR) just published a review by Michelle Mazel, the noted analyst and novelist, on my latest book, <em>Isra&euml;l peut-il survivre ?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:AppleMyungjo;\n\tpanose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n\tmso-font-charset:79;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:1 0 16786438 0 524288 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:GaramondPremrPro;\n\tpanose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n\tmso-font-alt:Cambria;\n\tmso-font-charset:77;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-format:other;\n\tmso-font-pitch:auto;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:595.0pt 842.0pt;\n\tmargin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:35.4pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:35.4pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>FROM MODERN HATRED TO BIBLICAL PROPHECY,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em>By Michelle Mazel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Following the 2008&ndash;2009 Cast Lead operation in Gaza, French bookstores were<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>suddenly flooded with books about Israel, most of them accusing and condemning<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>the Jewish state. This prompted Jewish writers, both newcomers and seasoned<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>authors, to pen essays and books defending Israel. They bemoaned the perils<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>threatening the country and hinted at a catastrophic future for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Thus, in <em>A State Too Many<\/em>,(<\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:6.5pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>1) <\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>Fabien Ghez notes that today it is more and more<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>widely believed that, if Israel were to disappear, the world would be a better place<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>and peace would break out. In <em>Israel: A Future Compromised<\/em>, Olivier Burochowitch<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>and Richard Laub openly ask whether the demise of the Jewish state is inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:6.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>(2) <\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>In <em>A Name Too Many: Is Israel Illegitimate?<\/em>, with a foreword by Pierre Andre<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Taguieff, Jacques Tarnero wonders why so many people want not only the elimination<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>of Israel but even of its very name. (<\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:6.5pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>3) <\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>Taguieff himself recently published <em>Israel<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>and the New Jewish Issue.<\/span><\/em><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:\n6.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;\nmso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>4 <\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;\nmso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>These and other books highlight the miracle of Israel&rsquo;s<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>renewal and accomplishments as well as the mendacious and virulent campaign<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>against its very existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Even in this context, a new book by Michel Gurfinkiel, his eigth, is of special<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>interest. A former editor of the French weekly <em>Valeurs Actuelles <\/em>and an occasional<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>contributor to the <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em>and <em>Commentary<\/em>, Gurfinkiel is the founder<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>and chairman of the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute, a conservative French think<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>tank on political issues. As he said in an interview to a Jewish website, he had been<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>asked so many times whether Israel could survive that he decided to write down<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>his thoughts about it.(<\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:6.5pt;font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>5) <\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>He also said in the interview that he believed in Israel&rsquo;s<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>ultimate survival. The book itself, however, is not totally optimistic. Indeed, the<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>opening paragraph is gloomy enough: <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&ldquo;The twelfth war of Israel will not happen.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Such is the hope of the Israelis. They are preparing for it. They know that, should<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>it break out, it will be difficult. And murderous.&rdquo; <\/span><\/em><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>(<\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:6.5pt;font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>6)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Gurfinkiel discerns two main themes in the accusations against Israel. First,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&laquo;&nbsp;Israel is indicted for being a colonial state; an artificial state that came into being through arbitrary decisions&hellip;having been founded&hellip;at the expense of another state&mdash;a<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>natural one&mdash;Palestine; having expelled the Palestinians in order to settle<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>a new people, the Israelis; persisting in tricks and illegality while pretending<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>to maintain at all costs a Jewish national identity&nbsp;&raquo;.<\/span><\/em><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;\nmso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;> The Shoah would<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>be the one extenuating circumstance. It cannot, however, excuse everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Nor can its value last forever. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>One by one, using lengthy historical arguments, Gurfinkiel refutes these charges<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>in what is by far the most persuasive part of the book. He then turns to the second<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>theme and to his main thesis. The real reason, he contends, behind the implacable<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>hatred directed at the Jewish state <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&ldquo;is not so much the Middle East state called<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Israel&hellip;as a transcendental and metaphysical Israel, that of the Bible, of which the<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>state, whether it wants it or not, whether it assumes it or not, is the heir and the<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>last carrier to date&rdquo;<\/span><\/em><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>. The emphasis here is less on Christianity&mdash;though it is<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>significant as there are still some Christians who view Israelis ( Jews) as a people of<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Christ-killers&mdash;than on Islam. The latter religion, Gurfinkiel suggests, rejects the<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>very notion of a Jewish state because, first, there is an inherent theological conflict<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>between Islam and Judaism, and second, there can be no infidel state on what was<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>once a territory under Islamic rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Gurfinkiel elaborates on Arab hostility and its manifestations, the help it receives<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>from international institutions that should know better. He devotes, in fact,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>almost a third of his book to the United States and its ambivalent attitude toward<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Israel. He has harsh words for President Barack Obama, to whom he devotes a<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>whole chapter. He discusses Obama&rsquo;s resolutely pro-Islamic 2009 Cairo speech<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>and his doomed efforts to bring a new harmony to the relations between the United<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>States and the world of Islam. <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&ldquo;For Israel,&rdquo;<\/em> Gurfinkiel asserts, <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&ldquo;Obama&rsquo;s rise constitutes a major danger&rdquo;<\/em>. In a May 2011 interview with prominent French publicist Guy Milli&egrave;re, he went<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>so far as to say that <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&ldquo;Obama is an absolute enemy of Israel.&rdquo; <\/em>(<\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:6.5pt;font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;>7)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:6.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Toward the end of his lucid, if bleak essay, Gurfinkiel turns to the biblical<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>prophet Zechariah to find grounds for hope. <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&ldquo;Behold, the day of the Lord<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>cometh&hellip;I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>taken&hellip;.&rdquo;<\/span><\/em><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;> But as the following verses say: <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&ldquo;Then shall the Lord go forth and fight<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>against those nations&hellip;and it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up to worship the King, the Lord<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>of hosts&hellip;.&rdquo; <\/span><\/em><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>(<\/span><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:6.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>8)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:6.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>In his conclusion, having asked again whether Israel can survive, Gurfinkiel declines<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>to answer by a simple yes or no. <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&ldquo;Israel can perish by assassination,&rdquo;<\/em> he writes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&ldquo;Yet there is still time to prevent the crime and the disaster today, by adopting a<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>new rule of the game and keeping to it&rdquo;<\/span><\/em><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:\nGaramondPremrPro&quot;> .<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>This extremely well-researched and thought-provoking book has not benefited<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>from any significant media exposure outside the narrow circle of French Jewish<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>media, mainly the community&rsquo;s many blogs and radio programs. Yet it should be<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>required reading for those who want to understand the complexities of the issue. It<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>should be noted, however, that recent events including the so-called Arab Spring<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>have somewhat changed the equation. More and more people are coming reluctantly<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>to the conclusion that Israel&mdash;and the Palestinian question&mdash;is not really<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>the one issue preventing peace in the Middle East. The brazen slaughter of thousands<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>of Syrian civilians while the world looks on, the electoral victories of Islamic<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>parties throughout the region, and perhaps the growing awareness of the looming<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Iranian threat have opened many eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Notes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>1. Fabien Ghez, <em>L&rsquo;Etat de Trop <\/em>(Paris: Editions David Reinharc, 2010).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>2. Olivier Boruchowitch and Richard Laub, <em>Isra&euml;l: un avenir compromis <\/em>(Paris: Berg, 2009).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>3. Jacques Tarnero, <em>Le nom de trop: Israel illegitime? <\/em>(Paris: Editions Armand Colin, 2011).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>4. Pierre Andre Taguieff, <em>Israel et la nouvelle question juive <\/em>(Paris: Les Provinciales, 2011).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>5. http:\/\/www.aschkel.info\/article-interview-de-michel-gurfinkiel-par-guitel-ben-ishay-<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>73706900.html.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>6. &ldquo;La douzi&egrave;me guerre d&rsquo;Isra&euml;l n&rsquo;aura pas lieu. C&rsquo;est ce qu&rsquo;esp&egrave;rent les Isra&eacute;liens. Tous s&rsquo;y<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>pr&eacute;parent. Ils savent que si elle &eacute;clate elle sera meurtri&egrave;re&rdquo; (9).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>7. http:\/\/www.terredisrael.com\/infos\/?p=35696.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>8. Zechariah 14 (King James Version).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:AppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>Michelle Mazel is a graduate of Sciences Po (the Institute for Political Science)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>and the Paris Faculte de Droit. She is a writer of both fictional and nonfictional<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\nAppleMyungjo;mso-bidi-font-family:GaramondPremrPro&quot;>works and currently resides in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><\/p>\n<p><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot; \/><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal&quot;> <\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal&quot;>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal&quot;> <\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Mazel&apos;s reviews my latest essay on Israel for the Jewish Political Studies Review.<\/p>\n<style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<\/style>\n<p style=&quot;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\ntext-autospace:none&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/en\/israel-from-modern-hatred-to-biblical-prophecy\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Israel\/ From Modern Hatred to Biblical Prophecy &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[655],"tags":[849],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}