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To the Editor:
Sohrab Ahmari shows a moment of understanding in his essay "What Does IT Mean to Be 'Pro Israel?' [May] when he writes, "the trouble with such feel-good hasbara is that it betrays an inner insecurity of defensiveness about Israel rather than confidence."
The problem didn't start with J-Street, Obama, or the State Department, or with the UN or the EU. It didn't start with Sharon, or Rabin, or Amir, or Begin. And it didn't start with the UN Partition Plan or the San Remo Conference or the Balfour Declaration.
It started and continues in the heart of the Jewish nation. It started in Numbers, with the Jews' rejection of the land of Israel, and it continues in the Jews' rejection of the Land being given to us by the Creator of heaven and earth, the definer of good and evil, the arbiter of right and wrong.
The whole problem would fade into nothingness if we were to reach a consensus that this land is ours by dint of our Creator's giving it to us. Not the UN, not the Holocaust, not military right, no historical connections, but simply because He gave it to us. With this conviction in our hearts, all the "inner insecurity or defensiveness' will disappear and we won't even hear the meaningless voices of our detractors.
Mosheh Wolfish
Baltimore, Maryland
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