Zionism

The American people, thank God, are not likely to be bamboozled by their intellectuals, and thank God again, Israel is defended by good fundamentalist Christians. Still, one must not underestimate the potential danger that an erosion in Israel’s moral position poses for Israel and for the American Jewish community. This danger must be met by mounting a massive educational effort.

Without wealth, our sages considered a person for all intents and purposes dead ( “Mashul Lemet”) because he is a slave to his needs, with little time or energy left to develop the “superfluity that is man” (“motar ha’adam”), the divine spark that elevates him above other living creatures. The American ethos, sanctifying property, is closer to this traditional, Halachic Judaism than the Israeli ethos, which reflects a Christian viewpoint, adopted by Socialism.

One of the left’s most celebrated gurus recently tried to explain our existential predicament, the true, if hidden nature of our conflict with the Palestinian Arabs. Our guru, A. B. Yehoshua has also devised a solution that may heal not only our guilt-ridden Israeli psyche, but will also resolve a deep conflict besetting our very nature as Jews.

The amazingly simple solution is a unilateral withdrawal from practically all of the West Bank, the eradication of most of the settlements (an original sin if there ever was one, for Yehoshua) and the demarcation of a fenced border along the 1967 line.