No more the safe haven, no more the Promised Land

I see no way to put the anti-Jewish genie back in the bottle in the US. The ‘Goldene Medina” – the Golden Land – as Jews used to call the USA, is no more.

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar, INN

I spent five of the weeks between Passover and Shavuot of this year on a lecture tour of the US and Canada, as I do every year. The first tour took place in 2009, making this one the eleventh. Among those inviting me to speak are academic institutions, Jewish and non-Jewish public organizations, community centers and individuals. The topics of my lectures center around my research on the Middle East, including Israel, as well as Islam in its indigenous states and in those to which it has migrated.

The Jewish institutions inviting me to lecture run the gamut of North American Jewish culture: from liberal progressive, as in Reform temples, to Orthodox and even haredi milieus. I am invited by Jewish organizations such as IAC and asked to speak to them in Hebrew. On every tour, I meet people with diverse opinions, hear varied approaches to issues and listen to complex ideas.

In previous years, I was always asked to talk about the Middle East, the challenges facing Israel, the peace process, the “Arab Spring,” Islam, ISIS and similar topics involving the region and how its problems spill over into other countries. The situation in the United States, and especially the subject of US Jewry, almost never came up in my lecture series because, in the audiences’ eyes, the fact that I am an Israeli precludes my having anything to say about American Jewish affairs.

When, here and there, the topic of North American Jewry did arise, I received the incontrovertible impression that the Jews of the US and Canada feel that they live safely and securely in a Promised Land. North America was seen as such because Jews there live tranquilly in a nation devoid of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish discrimination, where they are part of every political and social circle and thus have no cause for worry.  They feel afe and secure because of the fact that the level of violence in American public space is generally low and where it is not, there is police protection for synagogues and Jewish community centers.

A Reform rabbi once made this feeling abundantly clear when he told me that “exile” is a concept, not a geographical construct. Any country in which Jews can live a secure and full life cannot be considered “exile,” he said, because that word refers to a land where Jews cannot maintain their religious, cultural and physical lives in free and secure fashion.  The hidden message in his words was that Israel is more of an “exile” than is America, because of the security situation prevailing in the Jewish State and the fact that Reform rabbis do not have the freedom to lead their congregations as freely as they do in the United States.

This year, however, the atmosphere greeting me during my lecture tour was entirely different. A good many Jews of all cultural types spoke clearly and openly of their fears with regard to two things: the rise in Jew-hatred and the deteriorating security situation. (I am attempting to avoid the term “anti-Semitism” because Arabs, too, are Semites). The reasons for the rise in anti-Jewish hatred are many and varied: The Christian European legacy that emigrated to the New World; Jews identified as being movers in the establishment as well as in finance, media, politics, academia, arts and film-making; Jews involved in scandals in the movie world (e.g. Harvey Winston)  and in financial scams (Bernie Madoff); increased Islamic immigration to the US leading to political clout as seen in the election of three Muslim members of Congress for the first time in US history; identifying Jews with Israel – and more.

It is important to remember that Jews are to be found in political positions that put them in the public eye. Among the liberal Jews who surrounded President Obama were Rahm Emanuel, Dan Shapiro (then US ambassador to Israel) Jeremy Ben Ami (J Street head), Jonathan Greenblatt (currently head of the ADL) and others. Many of the Americans who opposed Obama, especially Republicans, aimed their arrows – both the airborne and more subtle ones – at those Jews. On the other hand, President Trump is surrounded by Jews as well, conservative politically and even Orthodox religiously: his daughter Ivanka, son-in-law Jerard Kushner, advisor Jason Greenblatt, US ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Michael Cohen, Steve Mnuchin (Sec. of the Treasury) and others. An anti-Trump American does not care for the Jews who are closely connected to the president.

It is worthwhile mentioning that Jews held high level positions in previous Republican administrations as well: Paul Wolfovitz was Deputy Sec. of Defense under President George W. Bush, and other Jews – Douglas Feith and Richard Perle come to mind – filled key positions in the US government. Clinton, the Democrat, put Dennis Ross, Richard Holbrooke and Martin Indyk in key positions as well. The Jews have found themselves between the Republican hammer and the Democrat anvil for a long time.

Identifying Jews with big money is a widespread phenomenon in the USA, and for many reasons: Prominent investment banks – Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, for example – were founded by Jews and still carry their names. During the 2008-2009 general financial crisis the two were in the epicenter of the period’s  economic, media and public earthquake. Bernie Madoff, the Jewish “investor,” lost the assets of thousands of American citizens.

Jews are the most prominent donors to American charitable causes, such as hospitals, universities and organzations that aid the needy. Jews donate to these causes because they feel a responsibility towards the American society which accepted and included them with unlimited affection.  The donors’ names are up there for all to see on plaques and above the entrances to  these many institutions. The problem is that when the ordinary blue collar American who works hard to put bread on the table sees the Jewish names shining proudly on the entrances to hospitals and universities (many of which charge over $50,000 a year in tuition fees), he associates the Jews with money and so Jewish generosity acts against the donors and the group to which they belong. Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar knew what she was doing when she spoke of the connection between Jews and “Benjamins” – a term for the US $100 bill which has Benjamin Franklin’s portrait printed on it.

The roots of Jew hatred and its causes have been analyzed in myriads of articles and books. I will add only two important factors here, common to the Arab-Muslim-Eastern world and the Western-European-Christian one:

1. Two religions, Christianity and Islam, are both daughter religions of Judaism and both developed “replacement theories” according to which both consider themselves the true religions replacing the defunct Judaism whose adherents are to  be subjugated and humiliated under Christian and Muslim rule

2. Jews lived in both these cultures among the nations and since Jews are “different” by definition, there are always many who hate them. The proof that these two factors – the religious and the realistic – are the basis of Jew hatred is the fact that in three other cultures – Chinese, Japanese and Indian – who for our purposes can be seen as a control group- there is no Jew hatred because:

a. there is no connection between the local religions and Judaism and

b. Jews did not live among the Chinese, Japanese and Indian peoples. Jews are therefore not seen as the “other who lives among us at our expense”, and therefore are not hated.

Jew-hatred immigrated to the US from Europe long ago, but today its source is Islam and it is increasing as Islamic presence in public and political spheres becomes more pronounced. The number of Muslims in the US today is on the increase, while the number of US Jews is in constant  decline. Most US Jews are liberals and over 70% vote Democrat, making them the target of those who hate the Democrats. Jews were at the center of the struggle for civil rights for Afro-Americans in the middle of the last century and can be found today in the forefront of public activisim for accepting Syrian migrants, mainly Muslims. The American Right sees this Jewish activity in a negative light and as a result their demonstrations include the slogan “Jews will not replace us.”

The growing hatred towards Jews is evident in worrying reports of a dramatic rise in the number of incidents where this hatred is expressed, the most shocking being shooting sprees: One, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the Succot hoiiday this year, was the work of a murderer named Robert Bowers who broke into the Tree of Life Synagogue murdering 11 worshippers in cold blood and wounding six. The second happened this past Passover when a murderer named John Ernest broke into the Poway, California Chabad House, killed a worshipper and  wounded three others. In both cases the perpetrators cited the ant-Jewish Turner Diaries written in 1978 by an American Nazi named William Luther Pierce who also writes under the pseudonym Andrew MacDonald.

Another factor casting a shadow on Jewish life in the USA is the strengthening of anti-capitalist concepts and negative opinions regarding “privileged,” rich, healthy whites held by groups seen as underprivileged: people  of color, the poor and handicapped. Jews are considered privileged and therefore an inseparable part of the  “oppression and exclusion” system operated by the “privileged” against those “discriminated against” and “excluded” from the advantages available to the privileged groups.

More and more, as criticism of the policies it employs for self-defense increases, Israel is considered a burden by many American Jews. The very establishment of the Jewish State at the cost of the “unfortunate Palestinians” is in question. The challenge  to Israel’s right to exist because of it being a “colonialist entity” is  prevalent in US Academic circles where for decades generations  of students have been taught to  believe  with all their hearts that Jews have no right to a national home. Jews identifying with Israel on campus are subjected to criticism and hate speech from lecturers who threaten to affect their grades negatively and from peers who threaten their safety.

It is imperative to mention the involvement of Jewish organizations In fanning the flames of this criticism as well as hatred for Israel: Jewish Voice for Peace, Peace Now, J Street, each it its own way and with its own methods. Activists in these organizations think that if only Israel would “act nicely” – according to their definitions of what that entails – to its neighbors, they – that is, the Jewish liberals  and progressives – would be accepted more easily by American society. They do not realize the simple fact that Jew-hatred has nothing to do with Israel, was not born in 1948 but is deeply rooted in western culture, just as it is in Islamic culture.

The US was the Promised Land for Jews for many years. It was a land of immigrants where they could enjoy equal rights, respect and appreciation just like the other immigrants to its shores.  It was also a safe haven – certainly in comparison with the security situation in Israel – a country where no one checks the bags of those entering a shopping center, train or bus station as they do in the Jewish State. However, the increase in Jew-hatred over the last few years has cast a pall on that feeling of security, and the murderous attacks targeting Jews in the past year have made the safe haven concept a shaky one. Many synagogues now have police protection during Sabbath and holiday prayers or during other activities that take place during the week.

A number of Jews have established an organization called Jews Can Shoot. Their kippahs are embroidered with the words: “Norhing Says Never Again Like an Armed Jew.” Printed on the lining of the kippah is a saying by the Jewish Sages: “If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first.” There are Jews who come to the synagogue with a firearm, but is that going to solve the problem of Jew-hatred? And what exactly is the armed Jew going to do if the murderer carries an automatic weapon? What is going to happen if a group armed with automatic weapons attacks a synagogue where a single guard carrying a pistol is stationed outside? Is this scenario impossible to imagine?

Never Again kippah

I became aware of the massive change in the worldview of many US Jews during my lecture tour between Passover and Shavuot. The fear of encountering Jew hatred and terror attacks became a real possibility, an all-embracing undercurrent. The result is going to be the strengthening of two opposing trends: one, that Jews who do not feel a real connection to the Jewish collective are going to see that connection as an increasingly troublesome burden which they will try to make less visible as long as they can safely integrate totally into the surrounding society and be rid of the destiny facing US Jewry. In contrast, those Jews who will not or can not hide their identity (due to their clothes, side locks, beards and faith) will surround themselves with real or virtual walls in order to protect themselves and their congregations in Jewish neighborhoods (such as Williamsburg, Brooklyn) or towns  (such as Monsey and Munroe). Others will reach the conclusion that French Jews reached over the past few years, give up life in America and move to Israel.

Israel’s political system reflects the mindset of its population, with the right getting steadily stronger and the left weaker in a long term, continuous process. The political system in the United States, in contrast, is based on a kind of pendulum that sometimes grants the reins of power to Democrats like Carter, Clinton and Obama, and sometimes to the Republicans like Reagan, the Bush father and son and Trump. It is possible that after Trump – as a reaction to his way of thinking and behavior – the political pendulum will bring a radical leftist Jew like Bernie Sanders and his followers’ liberal progressive agenda.That will bring the anti-Jewish feelings on the part of the American Right to new heights, but hopefully not their anti-Jewish actions.I do not see a way to return the anti-Jewish genie back to the bottle – and I am not so sure he was ever imprisoned there.

Twentieth century history teaches that the more Jews were integrated into the society in which they lived, the greater the threat they were perceived to pose to that society, therefore the greater the hatred they inspire. In pre-WWII Weimar Germany, Austria and Holland, Jews were on the highest socio-economic level, causing the Jew-hatred in those countries to be worse than that of Eastern European countries. Until recently, most American Jews felt that the US is intrinsically different than Europe, that “it can’t happen here.” That feeling has begun to erode.

Israel must prepare itself to absorb massive aliya from the USA. This aliya will be the result of American Jewry reaching the conclusion that just as Europe, the USA has ceased to be a secure haven for Jews. Canada is not much better. And what is happening in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, let alone Venezuela, will encourage many of the Jews in those countries to leave them and move to Israel. I believe that  massive aliya from North, Central and South America is a matter of a few years at most, and the question Israel faces is what steps to take in order to absorb these future and blessed waves of immigration successfully.

Written in Hebrew for Arutz Sheva, translated by Rochel Sylvetsky

June 17, 2019 | 20 Comments »

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  1. @ Adam Dalgliesh:
    Adam I think we are running out of time. Time is not something that we can gamble with.

    There are big changes and there is serious study. See this article about the Arctic melting and also note the related articles at the bottom

    https://phys.org/news/2019-04-early-winter-snowfall-advances-arctic.html

    The Paris plans that Trump pulled out of themselves were no use. But that was not why he pulled out. He pulled out because global warming to him is not real. He forms an alliance with the new Brazil President and with many of the up an coming in Europe. This must not be taken off the agenda of Israpundit. It is and by your silence you are helping.

    Please review the new evidence coming from scientists on the Arctic Melt and explain how there is no urgency and explain your confidence that things can eventually be righted. Why do you think that…Millions of species being lost. I thought Jews had a conscience

  2. @ Elie Benzaquen:Near Gaza I concur it is clearly not safe. The government has not done enough to be understated.

    However since I familiar in depth of security in both the USA and Israel, Israel is by far the safer place. Also when one makes ones life in Israel they are contributing to the collective safety of the Jewish people. It also feels safer in most places at most times. Yes you would be stupid to walk in certain Arab areas at night but you be stupider to walk in South Chicago at any time.

    In the USA it is not just the now recurring attacks on Jewish Places of Worship but the attacks on the streets of NY and LA of people who are visibly Jewish, plus at Jewish students on college campuses. The USA suffers extremely high violent crime rates. The attack on the Parkland School in Florida for example. The random murders in places like Chicago.

    2016 USA Murder stats 5.35 per 100k people or a total 17,250
    2015 Israel Murder stats 1.36 per 100k people or 110 total

    More people die on the roads of Israel than from terrorists. Though this statistic is going down as statistically the roads are safer (or maybe the medical care is so good more people are saved, statistics do not tell us).

    The question of mass aliyah will not just come down to safety. How motivated are North American Jews to move to Israel. Moving anywhere is hard, but moving to a new culture with a new language is a real challenge. Getting settled job wise in Israel depending on what you do can be challenging, especially if one hope’s that their first job will be as good as their last job in the USA. It could be if you are a software engineer. An American Doctor certainly will be welcome but will make less money. People who speak Hebrew and English can make more money and are in higher demand. If you only speak English there are less jobs available.

    So people who move to Israel hopefully will not just be running away but coming to Israel and wanting to be part of the Jewish home. People come to Israel for all sorts of reasons, yes Ukrainian Jews are now fleeing the violence in Eastern Ukraine, French Jews clearly are in serious danger (worse than US Jews).

    Many previous immigrant groups came because they were escaping their plight in their country of origin. Was life in Israel easy at first for most No but they adjusted and made it home. Now many families are coming over time via Nfesh bNfesh, having family is a huge plus.

    Smart motivated educated people who plan their aliyah to Israel tend to fare far better than an impulsive person just running away. Nfesh bNfesh really helps immigrants.

  3. @ Felix Quigley: Felix, I didn’t intend to leave you in the lurch. I said all I could think of or knew on the subject that I thought might be a useful contribution to the discussion. No one seemed interested in my middle position on the issue, which was that a,nearly all scientists who have seriously studied the issue agree that global warming is happening, that human technology is a contributing factor to it, that it will probably continue for some time. However, many of these scientists also think very serious impacts from global warming are unlikely until near the end of this century, that there is plenty of time to slow it down with countermeasures, that these countermeasures would not need to disrupt people’s lives greatly and would not drive existing industries out of business, and that the harmful impacts, if and when they do occur, are unlikely to cause species extinction or even a major increase in the death rate. This middle position angered both the climate change deniers and the climate change affirmers, so I decided there was nothing more that I could add to the discussion.

  4. @ Felix Quigley:
    So then I challenge Dr Kedar right down the line.

    Let us explore this paragraph:

    “A Reform rabbi once made this feeling abundantly clear when he told me that “exile” is a concept, not a geographical construct. Any country in which Jews can live a secure and full life cannot be considered “exile,” he said, because that word refers to a land where Jews cannot maintain their religious, cultural and physical lives in free and secure fashion. The hidden message in his words was that Israel is more of an “exile” than is America, because of the security situation prevailing in the Jewish State and the fact that Reform rabbis do not have the freedom to lead their congregations as freely as they do in the United States.”

    {By the way the Reform Rabbi as cited is wrong, Trotsky stood for the physical place of Palestine as the Homeland of the Jews}

    So I ask Kedar to explore why America has this freedom of religion on which so much for the exile was based.

    Is Kedar in favour of secularism in America? Could he point me to somewhere he has written of this showing his defense of secularism in America.

    Is Kedar aware of the writing of Karl Marx “On the Jewish Question” and I think that is a silly question of course he is aware.

    But has Kedar ever written and maybe quoted from the part of this essay which explains what is the basis of religious freedom in America. It is not hidden. The reason there is freedom is because religion is kept out of state issues, for example if you apply for a teaching job in a state school what religion you are does not come into it.

    But outside of the state there is perfect freedom to think religious ideas and to organize freely in whatever way they decide. (Islamists use this but then plot to end it)

    THAT is why Jews have seen America as a haven.

    Young people everywhere need to understand this basic idea, an idea which is also a principle.

    So Marx the atheist defends that, so also defends the centre of the American Revolution and Great Constitution, explicitly so.

    {Will Kedar now praise and publish Karl Marx? Why not?}

    But Marx the atheist {no matter what the present day McCarthyites think} also has his rights as indeed do all atheistic Jews. No you do not…You in this system are not allowed to hogtie the mind. So he is in his rights here also:

    “Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature – of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.

    The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange.

    The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and money is a real contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature; in the Jewish religion, nature exists, it is true, but it exists only in imagination.

    It is in this sense that [in a 1524 pamphlet] Thomas Münzer declares it intolerable

    “that all creatures have been turned into property, the fishes in the water, the birds in the air, the plants on the earth; the creatures, too, must become free.”
    https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/

  5. @ Felix Quigley:
    Obviously Kedar engages in these yearly trips. He is highly respected by the poor Jews in America who seek exile but are never accepted. This does his ego a lot of good. As he goes around he is preparing his “doctorate” of life and so he picks up the IMPRESSIONS he wants to.

    He leaves out that school children come out in UK and Europe against the terror of Global Heating. They want to live. They want the human race to endure.

    Where does Kedar place himself in relation to that urge and desire? I only have to ask.

    And the youth in America want to live too. AOC is correct on the issue of GHT.

    the fact is that the youth have long been taught a lying narrative about the “Palestinians” and two things happen…Israel squabbles over Mrs N hiring a chef, and Sherman writes his screeds in the expectation that something will happen by magic, like Francisco Gil White.

    These people do not even deal with reality.

    But it is all right. Do not fret. They all hate Leon Trotsky.

  6. The way I see it is there is no reason to be treading on eggshells. Just give an opinion. As a great hero of mine said “State What Is”.

    I have a middling idea of the politics of Kedar. I also have a quite horrifying image in my mind of Jews in millions being slaughtered in ghastly conditions and only in some cases partially understanding why and what was happening.

    Kedar does not have the “equipment” (either) to deal with what we are experiencing today. We being Jews and ALL of us.

    Fascism is something that appeared in human society out of the “death agony” of our capitalist system. As simple as that. Round about the 1920s on.

    Those Jews who did get an inkling and joined the workers in 1917 were LATER destroyed by Stalinism.

    Stalinism was rife in Poland. Deutcher was out of the Stalinist movement and possibly never broke from it.

    Fascism murdered half of the Jewish people and arguably pulverised the Zionist movement, and Kedar does not use the term “Fascism” once.

    I rest my case.

  7. @ Adsm Dalgliesh:
    Adam I am as blunt as blunt can be being from the north and Edgar will tell you what a problem they are. So naturally you are dead wrong on this. It is not just a word. It tells an awful lot about people but I do not know this writer well enough. I naturally use the word Antisemitism and I toyed sometimes with Jew Hatred, then thought why the hell should I? It is what it is why change. In fact your position on this tells me plenty about you. I also remember how you left me in the lurch as you dropped the global heating terror issue so abruptly. Being nice to people is no use and not good. This is a “hard place” and do not lecture about “courtesy”.

  8. @ Bear Klein:

    Pardon my impolite chutzpah for butting in but I too would like to answer that question. As I see it, those who will make aliyah from North America will be from among those who practise their Judaism, but rarely from those who are Jews only by ancestry but not by practise, and rarely those who have intermarried whose spouse is reluctant to leave their family. I doubt that we will see the massive numbers predicted by Dr. Kedar, notwithstanding the increasing antisemitism.

  9. @ Edgar G.:Edgar and Bear,
    Sounds like a dispute over nothing. Whatever word he use fto describe it, it, it is clear that hatred of and persecution of Jews is the tragic reality, going back at least two thousand years. Let’s forget about arguing over the”mot juste” and see if we can come up with some effective response to this hatred.

  10. @ Bear Klein:

    No Bear, I was not annoyed..amused rather than otherwise.. I was just giving myself a little exercise in textual muscle-flexing.. I don’t recall you ever annoying me, (I’ll say ..maybe once, just in case) but you are normally the soul of politeness, and consideration. (relentless, nevertheless). In your exchanges with Adam, for instance, you both seemed to be attempting to outdo one and other in courtesy and deference.

    Adam seems to me to be also a first class person, as I believe you are too. His spontaneous offer to help me move further showed his mettle.

  11. Predicting the future is difficult. The intermarriage rate among American Jews speaks to the low value they place upon being Jewish. However, things are complicated. Those who leave Judaism are not “stiff-necked” leaving the stubborn Jews to carry on.

    Those who marry out of Judaism lack self-pride, but the gentile spouses are pleased beyond reason to have bagged a Jew. They are grateful in many ways and for many reasons. Among them will rise a few who will support Jews, Israel and Judaism in surprising ways though they never convert.

    Among the Jews who leave Judaism are many highly intelligent folks but who lack wisdom, particularly those who move to the political left. Wisdom is a useless commodity to true Leftists, a bourgeois preoccupation. Those who choose to remain grasp the value of self-restraint, quiet strength – a community of seekers of truth. Thus, the Jews will remain a nation apart. Self-selection is a powerful cultural force.

    Finally, those who left will breed a few children into the third and fourth generations who will return to Judaism with added strength and experience. We see this phenomenon from as far back as the Spanish Inquisition.

    Then there will be those who will join Judaism out of choice. Aside from the Mormons and Evangelicals, family as an institution is falling away at a surprising rate. There will be those from every background who will view the stability of the Jewish Community as an opportunity to raise a family. The restrictions of Jewish life will be seen as creating a safe haven, where on the whole children are safe from predation because of the conviction that they should safe.

  12. @ Bear Klein:

    Bear…Oh Bear, you seem to have made a habit lately of hovering over this site and pouncing on my posts as soon as they appear. and …then, as you DID admit, misunderstand them. ….I wonder WHY…..? I have no answer to it, and we have always been on very good terms, with our opinions often “running in tandem”…

    I was NOT “so upset”….. as you so quaintly and modestly put it. which I made plain in my post…I was STRUCK by the incongruity of such a cerebral man descending to puerile and self-excusing explanations most often used by virulent Anti-Semites. Then, horrified, ignorant Jews-of whom Dr. Kedar is definitely NOT one- hurry to explain that the term was invented especially for Jew-hate, by a mid 19th century German otherwise almost lost to history. It puzzled me…

    Maybe I am the one having brain softening. I originally used the term “Anti-Semitism” when it seemed to mean something…..and then, a good while back, I felt that it had more or less become meaningless, and, because it had a large variety of gradations, didn’t properly express the virulent, toxic hate for Jews which pervades our good earth like a miasmic medieval gas..

    “Jew-Hate” expresses it perfectly.

    Thats all….nothing more….nothing less. Perhaps I should have just called it
    “curiosity” (instead of “struck by”) which you would have easily understood “unambiguously”, and made no comment .

    However I thank you for your post, as it gives me the opportunity of a little brain exercise, which, considering my age as you pointed out very recently, I may have needed. My vocabulary also has been getting rusty”…but I hope my “internal pipes” have not.

  13. @ Edgar G.:Hi

    I am very curious about why this so upset you

    I was struck by his “fall from grace” in his parentheses. …(that he didn’t use the words Anti-Semitism…., because the Arabs are also Semites)

    I use Jew hatred or Jew hater in writing many times because I think that points out very directly what is going on in certain circumstances. Nothing to do with that Arabs are Semites also.

    Just curious I did not think it was big deal.

    I do not concur with him that there will be a mass aliyah from North America within a few years at all.

  14. Deep, thoughtful,fully explained and accompnied by a solution, as is usual for Dr. Kedar.

    I was struck by his “fall from grace” in his parentheses. …(that he didn’t use the words Anti-Semitism…., because the Arabs are also Semites). To me this denotes a softening of the brain, which Dr Kedar definitely does not have, So why would he make such a foolish comment…. innumerable times threshed out and explained (very simple to explain Wilhelm Marr and all that)

    Israel is far too small for the influx of what he describes, and the horrendous trait of haggling over every little step, when immediate decisive action is needed is an Isreli/Jewish ineradicable trait, although there have been a few exceptions like the 6 Day War…. So, basically we are helpless…unless the “Good Goyim” whom we always depend on anyway, will come to our aid…

  15. Yes but nor can Israel say of itself that it is a safe haven for the jews. I have 600+ rockets from gaza (with barely any retaliation) that validate my point so lets stop pretending that the Jewish state is a safe place either. It has failed to protect its citizens due to pandering to the world, has the best weapons but is afraid to use them. The enemy is not afraid to attack so theres no longer any deterrent. To call its current Government right wing is a joke, and the left is even worse.