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September 26, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.forward.com/articles/3978

No Sunshine Patriots We

(Forward) Leonard Fein - Some ask: Why not give in to the temptation to shunt Israel to the periphery of our consciousness? Is it so wrong to focus instead on Iraq, or Katrina or even what movie to see this week? For my generation, Israel is magical. Mine is a generation that remembers a world without an Israel, for whom Israel's birth was a transcendent event. We care about Israel, and we should, because it is the most compelling and consequential collective project of the Jewish people in our time, perhaps even of all time. Israel's failure would be more than bitter; it would be a poison from which the Jewish people could not and would not recover.

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