Please Talk To Us

The Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) is grumpy because a group of Lebanese young political leaders visiting the US decided against attending a round table with his organization.

In his opinion, the Lebanese are the biggest losers:

[The Lebanese] have no opportunity to attend a lecture in Beirut offering a Jewish perspective on anything, unless it’s by a Holocaust-denying, anti-Israel spokesman. Nor can they buy a book in any store that offers a non-polemical view of Jewish history or Zionism. Nor can they go to a theater and watch a film, even “Fiddler on the Roof” or “Schindler’s List,” that deals sympathetically with Jewish themes, however remote from the current Arab-Israeli conflict.

Of course, he conveniently forgets that we consume American movies and series, most of which deal sympathetically with Israel and the Jews, and that we have access to uncensored internet and that we are reading his very words right now.

I guess he just can’t get over the fact that Lebanon has always given Israel a strategic silent treatment.