Indomitable Israel indeed! Go here now! Atlas OpEd in Israel National News. (what a Mothers Day gift!)
Serious props!
I am honored and humbled by an email the esteemed Professor Barry Rubin sent out to colleagues subject line, Thanks to Pamela Geller, Indomitable Herself".
Apparently he liked our oped (yeah baby)...... The fight for Israel is the fight for the individual, the free man. As goes Israel, so goes the rest of the civilized world (just look at Lebanon now).
INDOMITABLE ISRAEL AT 60,
A huge amount has been written on Israel’s 60th birthday. But one of the best and most moving articles is the one by Pamela Geller and Eliza Saxon, “Indomitable Israel at 60,” published here. One important element is that it accurately expresses not only the achievements but also the confidence and positive feelings of Israelis on this terrific occasion. I have read many articles in the mainstream media—the most respected newspapers—which have nothing to do with the country where I live. I fantasize sitting down a cross section panel of Israelis to read these pieces and watch the look of amazement on their faces as they then start either laughing or cursing at the nonsense being written. In contrast, consider one paragraph of the Geller-Saxon piece which—if nothing else was written at all on the subject—would stand as the best description:“Israel in 2008 looks little like the tiny agricultural nation that declared its independence 60 years ago. Modern Israel is a high tech superpower, leading the world in of medicine, biotech, computer science, environment, culture and art. After two thousand years of exile, fresh from the ovens of Europe, with virtually nothing, they came to rebuild their lives as free Jews in their homeland.” While there are tremendous dangers, we should remember that the greatest victories have been on the basis of material successes:
In Israel's sixty years, the Jews thrived. Free to pursue their dreams, the Jews flourished and their enemies seethed, Jews prospered while their enemies plotted their annihilation. The end of the Third Reich was merely a hudna, a cessation of hostilities until the annihilationists could regroup, rearm, redeploy. But Israel succeeded and Islamic jihad failed in all but one thing. The enemies of the people of Israel succeeded in infecting the world politic with their vile Jew hatred. Worse still, "enlightened", guilty, secular Jews sidled up to the enemy and worked their evil inside Israel, the US and other Western nations.”
We should never for one moment forget that all that has been built and done by Israel—and things done by Jews elsewhere in the world—was achieved immediately following the era in which 85 percent of Jews in Europe were murdered and 90 percent of those in the Arabic-speaking Middle East fled or were expelled. And, it is very sad to say, often the battle was waged despite the opposition and even slanders from too many nominal Jews who, for a variety of reasons, have acted as enemies through conscious decision, ideology, ignorance, or foolishness.
Pamela has been tireless in her support of Israel and has broken many new stories as well. Let’s thank her for her good work at a time when we can all be happy about what is achieved while never forgetting—as she doesn’t—all those trying to sabotage not only our accomplishments but our very survival. Oh, and one other point. Let’s remember never to lose our basic confidence, which is richly realistic. Or in the article’s words:
“In the Hagaddah we read 'In every generation they rise up against us to destroy us, but the Holy One, Blessed is He, saves us from their hand.' We survived Pharaoh, Haman, the Inquisition, the pogroms, the Shoah and the continued attempt by our Arab enemies to annihilate us. So I say to our enemies, we shall be proudly standing, long after you have disappeared, footnotes of history....” Exactly right Barry Rubin
Professor Rubin is the Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center
Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal
Editor, Turkish Studies. His latest book is essential reading, The Truth about Syria.
















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