“By pushing the issue of Jewish “refugees” from Arab lands to the top of the U.N.’s agenda, Israelis abdicating the moral high ground in favor of sinking into a battle of victimhood narratives with the Palestinians.

Until this obsession with U.N. approval is confronted and rectified, the politically free, pluralistic, tolerant economic dynamo that is Israel will continue to debase itself by constantly apologizing for its policies, actions and, ultimately, very existence…”

To read the entire essay as it appears in the Jewish Press, click here:

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/victimhood-as-foreign-policy/2012/09/23/2/