(JNS) It’s time to stop tiptoeing around. We might have boots on the ground in Gaza, but years of military action have resulted in thousands of our people dead. And after this current war, where will we be? Will using the same ideology and tactics lead us to a different crossroads 10 years from now? Five years? One year? Next month? The answer is a resounding “No.”
The main strategy of hasbara, advocacy, that Jews in the Diaspora and Israel have used to win over our antisemitic fellow citizens of the world, and those who are not quite there yet, has proven to be completely ineffective. Why? I don’t know about you, but does boasting about how great we are because of our many accomplishments relative to our numbers resonate, attract or convince anyone to stop hating us? Or does it, maybe, even increase negative feelings toward us, either out of jealousy or by being braggadocious?
If someone repeatedly leads the same in-your-face campaign to convince you to like him by spouting his many attributes, awards, achievements...
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Yeheshuah Ha Moshiach. You will find Him in the Torah. He is the Jew who is the Light of the World. The Church needs to rediscover Him and its proper relationship with Israel.