Dear Friend of EMET,

This morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Knesset and launched the 37th government. He is returning to office as the longest-serving Prime Minister, and at a time of unprecedented, existential danger for the state of Israel.

We all know that Iran is perilously close to a nuclear bomb and that there are 150,000 Hezbollah missiles staring down at Israel, just waiting for Israel to attack one of their nuclear facilities. We know that the Iranian-made drones and missiles might potentially overwhelm Israel’s air defenses and that if Israel attacks, it will be a very bloody war.

We also know that the Palestinian population has grown much more restive in recent months, with a new wave of attacks aimed at Israeli soldiers and civilians. It has also been alarming for many Israeli Jews to have witnessed the allegiances of some but by no means all, of the Israeli-Arab population living in places such as Haifa, Lod, and Ramla, who during the war in May of 2021 set fire to hundreds of Jewish cars, homes, and synagogues ([link removed]) . This came as a shock to many Israeli Jews, who had always thought of their Israeli-Arab neighbors as loyal citizens and may account for the strong showing of the right-wing vote that is part of the incoming government.

It has bothered us, to no end, that many American Jews, sitting far away from the Middle East in their cushy think tanks, university campuses, or suburban living rooms, have immediately taken it upon themselves to disassociate themselves from the government of the state of Israel, even before it assumed office. We understand that this comes from a place of deeply-rooted psychological discomfort and self-consciousness, and an overwhelming desire to be loved by all.

Life in the Middle East, however, is not always as simple as we would want it to be.

If there was ever a time when we need people to understand and contextualize the situation, and to be able to penetrate through the glaring and hostile headlines demonizing the Jewish state, it is right now.

One of EMET’s major goals is to tell the proud story of Israel and the Jewish people, how far they have always been willing to go for peace, and how the response has led them to the inevitable conclusion that Israel needs defensible borders. It is alarming to know how few people are aware of the exceedingly generous Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 and how it has resulted in a capital for Hamas in which to plan attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians or to launch rockets at Israeli communities. It is also deeply disturbing to see how few people are aware of the multiple offers for two states made by successive Israeli governments to the Palestinians, and how they have rejected every single one of them. And it is equally alarming to know how few people understand the extent of brainwashing that the innocent Palestinian child is exposed to through his classroom, his summer camp, sermons in the mosques, the media, and through the UNRWA textbooks.

What is sorely lacking from the popular narrative throughout university campuses and now making its way into the corridors of power in Western capitals, is any sort of agency or responsibility to the Palestinian people.

I, personally, am so grateful that I had to be in Israel during the war of May of 2021, when the Palestinians launched more than 4,000 missiles into Israeli population centers, homes, and communities, and had a taste of what it was like to be an Israeli citizen and to have a mere 60 seconds to run into a sealed room together with my family.

I am so grateful that EMET is here to tell the story to our nation’s policymakers and their staffers, and to be able to explain that, according to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, every nation has the clear right to defend its own citizens.

And I am so immensely grateful to you, our thousands of friends and supporters throughout the years, who have enabled us to tell Israel’s courageous and beautiful story.

Without EMET’s presence on Capitol Hill, who would tell Israel’s proud story?


Please support our efforts to tell the truth as best as you comfortably can.


Thank you very much,

Sarah Stern


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