By Samuel G. Freedman
CNN
May 17, 2018
Samuel Freedman writes that the events of May 14 along the Israel-Gaza border have placed an unbearable strain on the covenant between the two largest Jewish communities in the world, one in the United States and the other in Israel.
On that date, the 70th anniversary of Israeli statehood, Israel military forces killed more than 50 Palestinian protestors and wounded another 2,700 in a confrontation, as marchers tried to breach the security fence on the Gaza border. At about the same time, the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem turned into a virtual worship service for President Donald Trump.