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Dror Eydar. Source: LinkedIn.

Dror Eydar

Dror Eydar is Israel’s ambassador to Italy

The biblical account of the Philistines blocking up water wells at their own expense recurs throughout history—a metaphor for the West’s persistent failure to recognize the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood, abandoning the Jews in the process.
Unwittingly, AIPAC is playing into the hands of elements in the media and the Israeli political system that want to attack the right.
The left does not have a monopoly on morality, and we have never charged it with ensuring that Israeli politics remains kosher.
As far as the left is concerned, those on the right have always been fascists, neo-Nazis, messianic and a bunch of other curses.
The denial of national feeling was a replay of the denial of religious feeling, which had been banished after the secular and scientific revolutions. Even atheists can acknowledge the organizing function served by faith and religion.
Indeed, what are the laws of Israel to us if he knows better than we do what should be done, and can establish a “state within a state,” and steal our sovereignty as citizens to decide our future and our fate?
It is time for religious Zionism to come into its own as a movement that includes many different worldviews, rather than risk splitting the conservative-right vote among increasingly specific sectors, which could wind up putting the left into power.
A group of former Israeli generals and defense officials wants Israel to “divorce” the Palestinians, but they clearly fail to understand history • Our vast experience teaches us that Arabs have always rejected compromise; the conflict isn’t territorial.
Another lesson that is much more self-evident in our region than in Europe: Bloody conflicts cannot be resolved merely by entering negotiations and signing a piece of paper that is destined to lay abandoned in an archive, a silent witness to the folly of our leaders.