'Never Again' means putting Israel first

(JNS) — Since its establishment, life in Israel has resembled a grim trade-off. In return for the right to live as Jews in the one and only Jewish state, we have been expected to surrender something far more basic, our right to live in safety.

From birth, Israelis enter into an unspoken agreement, one that demands we normalize existential threats. We are told it was our fate. That there is no alternative. That is the cost of living in the Jewish homeland.

And so, we become desensitized. A stabbing in a supermarket parking lot no longer shocks us. We live by missile-alert apps and concealed-car...