Why do you support Israel's right to exist?

[Torie]

None of the choices comport precisely with my point of view. My view, is yes, Israel does have a "right" to exit (the very question is a bit condescending actually) because the folks that live there, were born there, have a right not to ejected, killed, or otherwise reduced to another diaspora. We don't think Americans who came here more recently are anything less than Americans who trace their linage to the Puritans. Re-litigating history on the one hand (the Arab claim), and springing executory interests on the other (the Jewish historical claim), is a fool's errand. It is a recipe for perpetual conflict, That impulse must be resisted. It is a matter of human decency. It is what is right. The rest is noise.

And the idea that the Jews are interlopers who must be removed, through the long slow logic of demographics, is a profoundly immoral idea. Once their neighbors accept the idea of pluralism, and it becomes hard wiring, instinctual, than perhaps the conversation can change. Until then, let the wall remain strong - and thick.