Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and the David Horowitz Freedom Center
proudly invite you to a special event
We read the headlines and each day brings the news that Israel appears to be standing over an abyss, between terrorism, nuclear weapons, international delegitimization, social problems and a host of other challenges, it’s not unreasonable to wonder whether Israel will survive.
But to look back at Israel’s history is to recognize that its situation has always been precarious, that it has always faced existential challenges that seemed on the verge of tearing it apart.
Israel has faced destruction time and time again, and while today’s threats are of a different character than in the past, they are a continuation of a small country’s long struggle against the historical imperatives of the West and the East.
Israel exists in defiance of history. In defiance of Longfellow’s exclamation in The Jewish Cemetery at Newport that, “What once has been shall be no more”. It is predictably unpredictable. There is no one set future for the Jewish state, only many possible futures.
In Israel: 50 Years From Now, we will explore those possible futures, both the good and the bad, in relation to the trends in Israel and the world. Through those possible futures we may begin to see whether the Jewish state will be able to defy the prediction in Longfellow’s poem or whether it will once again become a Jewish cemetery.
Daniel Greenfield is a blogger and columnist born in Israel and currently living in New York City. He is a contributing editor at Family Security Matters and a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center. His columns appear at Family Security Matters, Right Side News and daily at the Canada Free Press, as well as at Act for America and Front Page Magazine. Greenfield has a weekly column titled Western Front at Israel National News and his op eds have also appeared in the New York Sun, the Jewish Press and at FOX Nation. He has been named one of the Jewish Press’ Most Worthwhile Blogs in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. My writing has been cited by Melanie Philips, Daniel Pipes, Judith Klinghoffer and Michelle Malkin, among others.
His investigative pieces have included the story of Obama and Pfleger; he was the first to break months before the mainstream media and detailed the larger picture of Obama’s radical clergy ties, including Farrakhan supporters, as well as exposing Rabbis for Obama as being a front group for Pro-Hamas appeasement supporters. He broke the story on Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice recognizing a HizbullahFatah propagandist with an award as one of the International Women of Courage; exposed the involvement of a CAIR official in the Muslims for Ron Paul group and the deletion of an honor killing from the movie Crossing Over; investigated the ties of the Durham torture Dems to Anti-Israel and Pro-Saddam activism; analyzed early on that Samir Kuntar was to be a major factor in the second Lebanon war; and, investigated the Islamist ties of Al Queda’s Congressman
Greenfield writes a daily blog column at Sultan Knish, a blog by Daniel Greenfield on issues involving Islamic Terrorism, Israeli and American politics and Europe’s own clash of civilizations. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.
