Comments on: Just another country http://fresnozionism.org/2007/09/just-another-country/ A pro-Israel voice from California's Central Valley Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:48:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: gsdmorris http://fresnozionism.org/2007/09/just-another-country/comment-page-1/#comment-5389 gsdmorris Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:56:38 +0000 http://fresnozionism.org/archives/629#comment-5389 From Netanya, I am a non-Jew from Fresno area choosing to live in Israel 8 months every year. Beliefs about anyone ,anywhere and anything are the result of the information we possess. What I know to be true is the amount of revisionist history and data distortion that has found its way into America and especially onto its college and university campuses has helped form the perception many young Americans have of Israel today. To hold unwavering beliefs it is useful to possess accurate information-judge the data against one's core values and then determine where you stand-especially with regards to Israel. What I have found out, over the years working at a major University in California as well as a college here in Israel is how truly uninformed Americans are-their perception of Israel does not match the reality of what goes on here on a daily basis-so much more the pity. GSD Morris, Ph.D. From Netanya,

I am a non-Jew from Fresno area choosing to live in Israel 8 months every year. Beliefs about anyone ,anywhere and anything are the result of the information we possess. What I know to be true is the amount of revisionist history and data distortion that has found its way into America and especially onto its college and university campuses has helped form the perception many young Americans have of Israel today.

To hold unwavering beliefs it is useful to possess accurate information-judge the data against one’s core values and then determine where you stand-especially with regards to Israel. What I have found out, over the years working at a major University in California as well as a college here in Israel is how truly uninformed Americans are-their perception of Israel does not match the reality of what goes on here on a daily basis-so much more the pity.

GSD Morris, Ph.D.

]]> By: Shalom Freedman http://fresnozionism.org/2007/09/just-another-country/comment-page-1/#comment-5386 Shalom Freedman Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:46:35 +0000 http://fresnozionism.org/archives/629#comment-5386 Casting aspersion on Israel seems to be the fashionable mode for extreme leftist Jews to present themselves as 'morally superior. However some of us find their position not simply irritating but morally reprehensible to the uttermost degree. They falsify the picture of what Israel truly is, always make it far worse than it is. It would be far more useful in this regard if the New Israel Fund becamer the New World Fund and they devoted their activities to the hundreds of millions of people in the world living at subsistence level. There they might really be able to do good instead of harm. Casting aspersion on Israel seems to be the fashionable mode for extreme leftist Jews to present themselves as ‘morally superior. However some of us find their position not simply irritating but morally reprehensible to the uttermost degree. They falsify the picture of what Israel truly is, always make it far worse than it is.
It would be far more useful in this regard if the New Israel Fund becamer the New World Fund and they devoted their activities to the hundreds of millions of people in the world living at subsistence level. There they might really be able to do good instead of harm.

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