http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/16/with-jews-under-siege-its-time-to-debunk-left-liberal-narratives-on-israel/
https://archive.is/B6E5e
For the last two weeks, Palestinians have been conducting stabbing campaign in Israel. Incited by the Palestinians’ top political and religious leaders, the campaign has thus far resulted in eight murders and over 70 attempted murders. The victims — including young teens, young mothers, and elderly women and men — have been targeted solely because they are Jewish.
The Obama administration is intent on characterizing the violence with a moral equivalence that is anything but moral. Team Obama’s approach to Israel reflects attitudes and assumptions commonly accepted in liberal-left circles. America’s historic support for Israel will be threatened over time if liberal-left narratives continue to take root here. Recent events in the Middle East, which highlight the barbarism and intolerance that pervades the region surrounding Israel, create an opportunity for Israel’s supporters to effectively respond to those narratives:
Narrative: Israel is a European colonial outpost
Response: Jews without Israel are Yazidis, indigenous people unable to survive the oppressive culture of the Middle East without a protected enclave.
About half of Israel’s Jews fled oppression from Arab or other Muslim countries, or their forefathers did. Jews once lived throughout the Middle East — one third of Baghdad was Jewish at the end of World War I, and there were Jewish communities in almost every Arab country as well as Iran and Turkey. Jews have been the largest religious group in Jerusalem since 1840, well before the Zionist movement began. By the mid-20th Century, oppression of Jews in the Arab world had become intolerable. Almost a million Jews were chased out of Middle Eastern communities they had lived in for centuries. Israel provided them a refuge. Without Israel, they would have suffered the same fate as today’s Yazidis, Christians, Kurds and other minorities in the Middle East. It is clear that the Arab and broader Muslim world is the most hostile environment on earth today for minorities (as well as women and gays). Tiny Jewish minorities have somehow managed to survive in parts of the Arab world, but that chapter is closing. Yemen’s last remaining Jews were recently ordered to convert to Islam or flee. Israel, with a land area one-sixth of one percent the size of that of the Arab world, is a tiny enclave that is necessary to allow these Jews to live in their own region.