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Evelyn Gordon

Many young Jewish Americans are being taught that special affection and concern for their own people is wrong. And if so, then special affection and concern for Israel—the one country on earth belonging to their own people—is doubly wrong.
The very existence of a Jewish state, whatever its flaws, is grounds for rejoicing.
Some 2.1 million “refugees” live in 27 designated camps. They attend special UNRWA schools and health clinics, instead of the regular Palestinian ones. And senior P.A. officials have said explicitly that they are not and never will be entitled to citizenship in the Palestinian state.
If the U.S. president doesn’t do anything more than declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the embassy, the Israelis would deem it sufficient.
So far, the average citizen doesn’t construe the recent allegations as all that serious.