{"id":2879,"date":"2006-07-25T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T19:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/25\/new-york-perspectives-on-the-israeli-lebanon-conflict\/"},"modified":"2006-07-25T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T19:20:29","slug":"new-york-perspectives-on-the-israeli-lebanon-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/25\/new-york-perspectives-on-the-israeli-lebanon-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Perspectives on the Israeli-Lebanon conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in New York last weekend and came across several rallies on both sides of the conflict. I attended the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jewish Unity Event in Support of Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d service at the West Side Institutional Synagogue on Sunday night. Speakers urged attendees to unquestioningly support the military policies of the Israeli government and to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153speak out in defense\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the military campaign. One rabbi talked of how Israel in the old days had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exterminated 31 nations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a result of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favor. He implored people to pray for divine favor this time around. He also stressed how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153alone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Israel is at this time and that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we are all alone together.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Perhaps he had not heard that the House of Representatives had voted 410-8 in favor of a resolution endorsing Israeli military action. (This service occurred the day after the front page <em>New York Times<\/em> story detailing how the US government was rushing more bombs to resupply the Israeli air force, regardless that U.S. law prohibits the use of U.S.-supplied weaponry against noncombatants). I did not hear a word of concern or remorse for the Christian or Muslim civilians killed in Lebanon by Israeli bombs and missiles. (I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if the Arabs or the Americans who attended the candlelight vigil for Lebanon at Union Square the night before expressed concern for the Israeli civilians killed by Hezollah rockets). The flier passed out at the service urged attendees to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153get the facts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by reading <strong>From Time Immemorial<\/strong> by Joan Peters and <strong>The Case for Israel<\/strong> by Alan Dershowitz &#8211; two books whose credibility has long since been shredded by Norman Finkelstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in New York last weekend and came across several rallies on both sides of the conflict. I attended the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jewish Unity Event in Support of Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d service at the West Side Institutional Synagogue on Sunday night. Speakers urged attendees to unquestioningly support the military policies of the Israeli government and to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153speak out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}