Daily Letter 26: What should we do?

What should we do?

The next time a well-meaning friend criticizes Israel’s approach, ask for a couple of suggestions of what Israel should do instead.

Fault-finding isn’t hard. But being realistic enough to provide other options, and then to follow through on where they might lead, this is what moral self-defense requires.

We should all agree that harming the blameless is wrong. The burden of ascertaining what is right is a burden that the criticized should not have to shoulder alone.

Am Yisrael Chai.
Rabbi William Hamilton