Edgar Bronfman Sr. Quotes
There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
Bronfman, Edgar M. "Israel's Sovereignty Challenge." HuffPost, 25 May 2011.
Israel is the only state in the overwhelming Muslim Middle East that is modern, democratic, Jewish, Western, and technologically based. It’s presence has been an embarrassment for all the Arab States in the region as Israel, founded in 1948 on some of the worst land of the Middle East with no oil or other natural resources developed from a desert in a short term, while the other states have remained backward, poor, and dictatorial. The Arabs have opposed Israel ever since its creation by the United Nations and have attacked it in numerous wars since then which the Arabs have all lost along with control of the traditional Palestinian lands which the Israelis occupy and control as a security measure. Only Egypt has accepted the existence of Israel as a Jewish State and entered into a peach treaty. The others still threaten Israel constantly and provide arms and ammunition to terrorists who frequently attack Israeli civilians while Israeli religious extremists, who believe that God gave much of the region to the Jewish People and have created settlements on Palestinian land, giving many Palestinians a just grievance to go along with the hostility that had already existed.
Syria constantly goaded Nasser and Egypt to attack Israel. However, Nasser was receiving huge foreign aid in the form of wheat which was needed to feed his population. See {595373}
Son of Egyptian President
In the complicated and arcane Middle East, substantial majorities of Israelis and Palestinians both favored a two state solution, thus creating a Palestinian State out of the West Bank and Gaza. However, the Hamas terrorist organization won the majority of seats in the Parliament and formed the “government” of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas opposed Israel’s right to exist at all, as that position as well as virulent Anti-Semitic threats to all Jews in the world. Many called for Hamas to change their charter and crease their opposition to the right of Israel to exist. The President of the Palestinian authority called for new elections but Hamas refused. Thus Blair and other diplomats the world over were in a very difficult situation.
Edgar Miles Bronfman was a Canadian-American businessman. He worked for his family distilled beverage firm, Seagram, eventually becoming president, treasurer and CEO. As President of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman is especially remembered for initiating diplomacy with the Soviet Union, which resulted in legitimizing the Hebrew language in USSR, and contributed to Soviet Jews being legally able to practice their own religion, as well as emigrate to Israel.
