Yes it is dangerous to call someone a traitor or a malshin because to paraphrase the old joke, anyone who goes to one more Israel day rally than you is a right wing extremist and anyone who goes to one less is a leftist Palestinian apologist. But as far as I know the malediction against malshinim is still recited daily in the Sim Shalom prayerbook. It means something. Malshinim do exist. The Neturei Karta who support the destruction of Israel and stand with Ahmanadinajad fall under such a category to my mind. And a Jewish leader, a prominent one, one of the top ten rabbis in America (according to that important guide to Jewish life, Newsweek) who refuses to show compassion for his own people under attack but only has compassion for those
who would commit genocide against Jews has to fall under that rubric as well. It is one thing for a person to stand against violence and oppression and castigate Israel AND the Palestinians. But to stand with Israel's enemies against Israel, to not even suggest moral equivalence between the two parties but only to have room in your heart for compassion for an enemy who calls for murder against Jews (not Israelis acc to the Hamas charter), I just cannot fathom how perverse such a hateful person can be. And of course he would want to meet with Ahmanadinajad, it is the realization of the rabbinic dictum, "those who are kind to the cruel, will end up cruel to the kind".
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