{"id":1305,"date":"2017-11-23T07:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2023-11-25T00:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:19:53","slug":"why-i-left-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2017\/11\/why-i-left-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Left The Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was questioned this week as to whether she supported Murray McCully\u2019s co-sponsorship of the \u2018measure condemning Israeli settlements\u2019 (UNSC Resolution 2334). Her response revealed that her only question was over the process. Ardern believes that McCully was correct to \u2018use the voice we had within the UN&#8230; \u2026to take a stand\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Ms. Ardern would do well to take a leaf from the book of another highly successful, female, left-leaning politician -one who as an \u2018up-and coming\u2019 politician also had a simplistic view of the Palestinian\/Israeli conflict.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Dr. Einat Wilf was member of the Israeli Parliament from 2010-2013 on behalf of the Labor and Independence parties. A leading intellectual and original thinker on matters of Israeli foreign policy, Einat\u2019s impressive resume includes membership of the influential Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the 18th Knesset and Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Dr Wilf explains the process by which her \u2018progressive\u2019 views and idealism regarding the Israel\/Palestinian conflict were shattered by the reality of her personal experience with \u2018moderate\u2019 up-and-coming Palestinian leaders &#8211; and the obstinate refusal of Palestinian leaders to accept the Israeli offers of statehood in the 2000 and 2008. She explains how she came to the realisation that \u2018the conflict is much more serious and deeper that what I was lead to believe&#8217; &#8211; that it\u2019s not simply about &#8220;ending the occupation&#8221; or the question of settlements or a border of a Palestinian state. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><em>I realised fundamentally that they don\u2019t recognise the right of a Jewish state to exist and they will not say yes to any agreement and to any deal that gives a Palestinian state, if it means that they have to come to terms finally and for all times with the permanence of a Jewish state next door<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Einat Wilf was interviewed in Auckland. Here\u2019s her story, \u2018Why I Left the Left\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/244088394?h=a623fe7604&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0[FBcomments]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was questioned this week as to whether she supported Murray McCully\u2019s co-sponsorship of the \u2018measure condemning Israeli settlements\u2019 (UNSC Resolution 2334). Her response revealed that her only question was over the process. Ardern believes that McCully was correct to \u2018use the voice we had within the UN&#8230; \u2026to take a stand\u2019.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,449,450,35,34,43],"tags":[82,25,19,93,159,162,163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8305,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/8305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}