Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.

The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.

Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.

Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't.