Alive and well

Larry Derfner may no longer be writing for The Jerusalem Post, but he is certainly alive and well in the form of Jeff Barak, a former editor in chief of the Post and former colleague of Derfner’s (“Height of hypocrisy, Reality Check, July 31).

Barak refers to Derfner’s book No Country for Jewish Liberals, in which Derfner accuses Israel of claiming the moral high ground in its conflict with the “Palestinians” and the wider Arab world despite often behaving in a far from moral way itself. One can only take from this – even with all that we have suffered at the hands of the so-called Palestinians – that we have not surrendered enough to their demands for our country and our very existence.

According to Barak, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was wrong in his public embrace of the guard at Israel’s embassy in Jordan who killed a Jordanian who had attacked him, as well as a bystander who unfortunately was in the vicinity. He says Netanyahu would not have taken it well if the situation had been reversed. This is nonsense and irrelevant, as we don’t glorify anyone who kills even in self-defense – unlike the Arabs, who glorify anyone who kills Jews no matter what the reason.

I do admit that the whole charade of the welcome and so-called rescue from Jordan was stage managed by Netanyahu to enable him to take credit. That’s because of the public’s disgust at his latest and most humiliating surrender at the Temple Mount to rioting Muslims who threatened that they would not return to “their” holy site. What a lovely time it would have been to take them at their word and throw them out – I can just see Barak and Derfner foaming at the mouth!

Enough already with our support for our enemies. Just admit it: They are our enemies and no matter how much you want it not to be, they want to terminate our existence and take over our land.

Perhaps left-wingers – and the Post has no shortage of them – think they will get preferential treatment if the Arabs take over. That’s what the kapos in Germany thought. Enough said.

YENTEL JACOBS Netanya