YITRO 5784 Yitro - The Man Who Heard Rabbi Andrew Shaw Chief Executive, Mizrachi UK
The world has gone crazy. The moral blindness is shocking to behold. South Africa last week decided to demonstrate to the world blatant anti-semitism with the egregious attempt to accuse Israel, not Hamas, of genocide. Now the UK this week decided to add their contribution, with some more lunacy, with the Foreign Secretary David Cameron telling us that the UK is keen on recognizing a Palestinian state once there is a cease fire. Insanity – as Con Couglin remarked in the Daily Telegraph:
Cameron’s remarks, though, where he intimated that Britain might pre-empt the outcome of any future peace negotiations by granting official recognition to a Palestinian state, indicated a dramatic shift in official British policy. They also demonstrated a disturbing lack of diplomatic tact at a time when Israel, a country that is supposed to be one of the UK’s closest allies, is engaged in an existential struggle against the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists responsible for committing the worst atrocity in the Jewish state’s history. The first comment on the article was also well put!
This is nuts, how can you reward them after all that has happened, it gives a green light to all extremists out there. Kidnap and rape and hate long enough and the West just caves. I guess when it comes to Jews they just don't really care anyway. It's becoming increasingly obvious with the double standards and hypocrisy. So, what is our response? Well thankfully it is not up to David Cameron what happens in Israel. But it is very easy to just look around and start to question our sanity. Does he really not see what we see? I visited the same stricken areas in the south that he did. Everyone we met from right to left was unanimous – there is to be no two-state solution after this – how can there be after what we have just witnessed? Yet some of Israel’s allies seem determine to disagree. Why? I am reminded of the Midrash at times like this: