Elliott Abrams wants John Kerry to STFU about Palestine

Gharib points out that Abrams painted Chuck Hagel as an anti-Semite just three years back, comments that helped to damage the future and former Defense Secretary.

One other point. In this latest piece, Elliott Abrams says that ISIS is Islam:

"[Kerry] repeated the ludicrous line that what ISIS is doing 'has nothing to do with Islam.' We are dealing with a group that calls itself the Islamic State and recruits Sunnis from Muslim communities across the world. The group then imposes its version of sharia on territory it conquers. Its every statement and its entire raison d'etre are permeated with its view of what true Islam requires."

This comment can be flipped on its head and applied to Israel: It calls itself the Jewish state and recruits Jews from around the world. In fact, Abrams has said that Jews must stand apart from the society they live in except when they are in Israel: "Outside the land of Israel, there can be no doubt that Jews, faithful to the covenant between God and Abraham, are to stand apart from the nation in which they live." And meantime Israel has theocratic tendencies and it massacres and persecutes Palestinians in the name of the Jewish people.

Below is my photo of the notorious Ofer Prison in the occupied territories, from Highway 443 on the way to the Tel Aviv airport. To visitors from all over the world, Israel puts its flag with the Jewish star atop a facility famous for the detention of Palestinian protesters. Is this really what Jews want to be known for? Shouldn't American Jews be pushing for Israel to become a secular society?