BDS: The Attempt to Strangle Israel|5 Minute Video

The newest strategy utilized by those who wish to strangle Israel is called BDS. Israel is one of the freest nations on earth, where everybody– consisting of Arabs– advantage from that liberty. If Israel continues to be singled out by BDS and suffocated financially, the damage would ripple throughout the world.

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Those who dislike the democratic and free state of Israel have actually dreamed up yet another way to ruin it. It has an innocuous name, but not a harmless function. It’s called the BDS Movement. The initials represent Boycott, Divest, and Sanction.

Created by Palestinian academics, it calls on individuals, on business, on colleges, churches, cities, and even nations to starve Israel economically and separate it socially. The ostensible reason for this is Israel’s alleged mistreatment of Palestinians living in the areas of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Now, I support the concept of the development of a Palestinian State. Really, so do most Israelis. And I am not a particularly encouraging of the West Bank settlement policy of the Israeli government. But I condemn the BDS Movement in the strongest possible terms. Anyone who as any interest in producing an environment for peace in the Middle East ought to likewise condemn the BDS Movement as need to anybody who merely understands the immorality of singling out Israel, of all the world’s nations, for economic strangulation.

Here’s why.

The BDS Movement neglects historical reality. You do not need to dig too deeply into late twentieth century history to find out that Israel got control over the West Bank only after it had actually been assaulted by Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War.

No attack by Jordan– no Israel in the West Bank. Israel, on at least two different celebrations, mainly just recently in both 2000 and 2008, has attempted to give practically all of the land it acquired in 1967 in the West Bank back to the Palestinians. In other words, there is no need for the BDS Movement, considering that Israel wants to give the Palestinians their own nation.

Second, the BDS Movement neglects current reality. Israel is one of the freest nations on the planet and without a doubt the freest in the Middle East, an area where there is precious little flexibility. In a world loaded with human rights violators of the most blatant kind why would you want to boycott a nation that has a lively totally free press, is a model of women’s and gay rights, and whose Arab citizens, one fifth of the nation, are the freest in the Arab World? Let me repeat: the Arab citizens of Israel, who comprise one 5th of Israel’s population, are freer than all Arabs living in Arab countries around the world.

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The most current strategy utilized by those who wish to strangle Israel is called BDS. Anybody who as any interest in producing an environment for peace in the Middle East should likewise condemn the BDS Movement as need to anybody who simply understands the immorality of singling out Israel, of all the world’s nations, for financial strangulation.

In other words, there is no need for the BDS Movement, because Israel wants to give the Palestinians their own country. Israel is one of the freest countries in the world and by far the freest in the Middle East, a location where there is precious little freedom. Let me repeat: the Arab residents of Israel, who make up one 5th of Israel’s population, are freer than all Arabs living in Arab countries around the world.