Kansas City Faith Blogger Reconsiders Harry Truman, Antisemitism & Holy Land Hot Mess

This morning we check one of the top writers on faith & morals in Kansas City offers his perspective on ancient struggles and, tragically, recurring hateration.

Here's the crux of his debate . . .

"One problem with defining antisemitism today, in the context of Israel, is that some people suggest it's antisemitic to criticize decisions by the government of Israel when, in fact, there are things about those policies that deserve criticism, particularly its failure -- from an enviable position of military and economic strength -- to find a satisfactory answer to the question of a homeland for the Palestinian people. Palestinian leaders, of course, also deserve criticism for their failure to come to terms with -- and accept the existence of -- modern Israel. They have so far helped to make it impossible for Palestinians to have the kind of political, economic, religious and social freedom all people deserve.

"I sometimes wonder whether we'd be closer to unraveling that Gordian knot if Truman still were in the White House . . ."

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