Yoram Ettinger is one of the most perspicacious, most dependable, most honest diplomats cum Zionists I have ever known. His knowledge of the Jewish religion and the history of Israel from the founding in Hebron to the hillsides of Judea and Samaria, to the cafes of Tel Aviv is boundless.
The foregoing is everything that Dennis Ross, David Makovsky and Itamar Rabinovich are not.
As Ettinger states..” Ross and Makovsky never bothered to discuss the issue with me, employing misrepresentation by members of Israel’s demographic establishment, which have been wrong, wronger and wrongest. ”
Dennis Ross and David Makovsky (Be Strong and of Good Courage, September 2019, pp. 276-280); “For the last decade, one person has stood out among all others in challenging the analysis of those who say that demographic trends require Israel to separate from the Palestininians. Yoram Ettinger, a former member of the Israel Foreign Ministry, has been the leading voice in seeking to debunk the demographic argument…. It is Ettinger who is the intellectual and political spearhead of the efforts to counter the demographic threat narrative.
[Ettinger] has supported analytical work…to prove that the Jewish majority is not threatened by demographic trends. In his words, ‘The Jewish state is not facing a potential Arab demograhic time bomb. In fact, Israel benefits from a robust jewish demographic tailwind.’
