Amb Chas Freeman 3 Things America Must Do to Redeem our Reputation Round the World
CF: I don't think very many people in Israel feel secure anymore. I think many of them feel that their government is not interested in their well-being or the release of the hostages but is playing games with them. I think many of them fear the establishment of a sort of Israeli version of the Islamic State, which carries out atrocities against nonbelievers and which makes the life of believers impossible. I don't think Israel can go on like this. Mr Netanyahu is rightly condemned for putting his own interests ahead of the people of Israel, and certainly ahead of world Jewry, because what he is doing--to the extent it evokes automatic support from Jewish communities around the world--puts them in jeopardy. You know, if you behave in an utterly despicable fashion you invite denunciation. You want to call that anti-Semitism? It isn't. It is a response to your own bad behavior.
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