The Jerusalem Post have a nice article on the recent America’s Voices In Israel delegation of celebrities. And by nice I really do mean nice, and not just relative to the nasty article by that D-list Ha’aretz hack.
Read the whole thing, but I’ll highlight this part regarding my friend Mark Pellegrino, who was very much affected by the trip, even though he boasted some strong pro-Israel credentials beforehand.
Pellegrino, who debates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with his followers on Twitter, weighed in on the morality of supporting Israel: “I think that where you stand on this issue [of Israel’s existence], and this could be a naive supposition on my part… tells the world a lot about your moral compass.
“To me, if you stand for freedom and the right of people to live under a structure that promotes liberty, you have a good moral compass, and there’s nothing that I’ve seen here that contradicts that.”
I don’t think that’s a naive supposition at all. I think that’s spot on.
