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Israel losing the public relations war against Palestinians

Where do you stand on Israel? Has your opinion changed over time? I ask because it seems to me that the tide on Israel is turning.

Seventy years ago, a clear majority of the world’s leaders believed in Israel’s right to exist as a home for the Jewish people.

How could it be otherwise?

More than six million of Europe’s Jews had died in the Holocaust. Those who survived lost their entire families.

The creation of Israel, two years after the Holocaust, was reason to feel hopeful about humanity.

 

Read the full article by Caroline Overington at The Australian (subscription only).