MY SAY: THE SIX DAY WAR
After Israel’s stunning victory in 1967 things changed for the Jewish people everywhere. In America the barriers to Jewish participation tumbled….in finance, the academies, social and fraternal institution…..which had been formerly restricted to Jews. The confidence of Jews throughout the world soared. Gone was the perception of weakness and victimization. In Russia, as the indomitable “refusenik” Ida Nudel told it, the war inspired dissent and activism even among those who considered themselves hopelessly marginal in the Soviet Union.
It is a great anniversary but laden with regret and a sense of loss as Israel has consecutively dismembered its patrimony and heartland in pursuit of accommodation with implacable enemies, and this sign of weakness and lack of resolve has emboldened jihadists and uncovered the bedrock of Antisemitism that has always plagued Europe.
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