Forgive Joe Biden. As Israel prepared this week for a general strike and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of “civil war,” the president might have been excused for gazing at the heavens and asking: “Lord, what am I going to do with Bibi?”
If this is true, credit Biden for helping force Netanyahu’s hand. It reflects the moral power of America.
In Canada, representatives of mainstream Jewry counsel caution and quiet diplomacy. While Israel slipped into chaos, they wrote a milquetoast But rather than listen to other voices in Canada – the progressive New Israel Fund of Canada and JSpaceCanada, for which support is surging – Shimon Fogel, president of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs , scornfully calls them “marginal groups” that “heckle from the sidelines.”
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