Niebuhr on Divestment | National Catholic Reporter

Niebuhr on Divestment | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: This Tablet is hardly objective on this issue, as a quick look at the masthead will tell you.  Sadly, it adopts the false equivalence found in much of American Jewry that equates Judaism with the state of Israel.  When Rheinhold died in the early 70s, the extent of mischief by the IDF in the Territories was not well known and was probably regarded as the pains of settling in - possibly for something temporary. We know different no.  As I have previously written, there are many options for the West Bank and Gaza, ranging from full integration with what must be a secular Jewish state to partition (to include the North) to semi-partition under the current inertia where the Arab majority has lesser rights - with those in the territories having none.  That last bit sounds like apartheid to me.  The Presbyterians have offered Israel and its friends a wonderful opportunity to examine where it is going and do something different.  Defensiveness from either within and without does not help Israel at all.