As it was reported last week that “AIPAC has persuaded more than three-quarters of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives to sign a letter calling for an end to public criticism of Israel and urging the US to ‘reinforce’ its relationship with the Jewish state (UK Guardian),” it is worth noting one fact of American citizenship: American servicemen and women, all federal employees, and elected representatives who swear to defend the U.S. Constitution do not affirm dual allegiance to Israel or any other country.
In fact, no American owes an affirmative vow of loyalty to Israel, as AIPAC and the Reut Institute apparently would have us believe.
But there is one point that Israeli militarists like AIPAC make that is valid: Israel is losing its legitimacy.
It’s Israel’s moral legitimacy, in the same way that the Catholic Church is losing its moral legitimacy: Inhumanity, arrogance, and lack of compassion for its victims.
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