Rabbi Sharon Brous Article in LA Jewish Journal

One of the participants in the Sunday pro-Israel rally in Los Angeles was a rabbi named Sharon Brous. She came away with a negative image of the rally and has written an article about it in Americans for Peace Now and the LA Jewish Journal. Here it is:

http://peacenow.org/entries/brous_narrowing_heart_mind

Rabbi Brous is also an activist for "social justice". I don't know much more about her than that, but she is well known.

It seems to me that Brous represents a fairly large segment of American Jews, who largely due to their liberal political views, have become very uneasy with Israel in its efforts to defend herself from annihilation.

Contrary to what non-Jews may believe, the American Jewish community is anything but monolithic in its political and social views. They are also anything but monolithic in their support for Israel. Witness organizations like J Street, a recent invention of the American Jewish left that pretends to support Israel, but strangely takes most of the critical positions espoused by Israel's enemies. Witness Jewish Voice for Peace, in reality, a fierce opponent of the Jewish state.

In addition, there are many American Jews who want Israel to survive, but feel that Israel must compromise and make peace with the Palestinians so that they can all live together in two peaceful states. That is also the position of the US Government. It is a worthy ideal. But it is not realistic.

The fact is that Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon are fiercely dedicated to the destruction of Israel and removal of all Jews from the region-by whatever means necessary. Hamas' own charter rejects negotiation as a waste of time and quotes the hadith of hate about the Day of Judgement with "Jews hiding behind trees that call out to the Muslims to come and kill the Jew". The leader of Hezbollash, an odious character named Nasrallah, has stated he wished all Jews would congregate in Israel so they would not have to hunt them down world-wide. The one Palestinian entity that the US thinks can negotiate with Israel the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank, still has TV shows portraying Jews as monkeys and pigs. Meanwhile those rockets in Gaza keep flying into Israel.

And people like Brous think that Israel should sit down and make peace with that?

While we are at it, why don't we criticize the French resistance during World War II?

I was not at the LA event on Sunday, but have spoken to one who sat in the front row. She described it as an uplifting experience. Yes, some peacenik guy was shouted down when he tried to speak. Yet this event was peaceful. It was not like the earlier events held this past week by the Palestinian supporters. No camerawomen got clubbed over the head with protest posters and signs.

What people like Brous don't understand is that the world is entering a period much like Europe in the 1930s, and that innocent Jews are being caught right in the middle of it-especially in places like European cities where they are being hounded by Muslim immigrants, anarchistic leftists, skinheads, Neo-Nazis and other cowardly Europeans who simply wish the Jews would disappear so they could have smooth relations with the oil producers in the Middle East and their own restive immigrant communities. One good example is the feckless mayor of Malmo, Sweden, who could care less that his Jewish community is leaving in droves due to persecution.

So now that finally thousands of Jews and other groups showed up in LA to make an unequivical statement of support for Israel (and against Islamic terrorism), people like Brous are getting nervous. Sadly, she is not alone. Even major Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation often choose to hide under their desks rather than stand up for what is right.

With friends like these, Israel, you don't need enemies.