(Washington Times) Paul Greenberg - When a church came looking for someone to talk about Judaism to a Sunday School class in Columbia, Mo., as president of the University of Missouri's Hillel Center, I would be sent. One question always arose: What are the Jews exactly - race, religion, culture, nationality, ethnic group? "We are," I said, "a family." Heads nodded in recognition. Everybody had one of those. I can't remember being quite so proud in quite this way of the family as I was this past week, when the news was full of images of Jews being forced out of their homes - this time by other Jews. The self-control of both settlers and soldiers required a kind of courage not even war may demand. It had taken 8,000 Israeli troops to capture Gaza in the Six-Day War, when Gamal Abdel Nasser was going to drive the Jews into the sea. It would take a force of 50,000 - trained, disciplined, and almost all unarmed - to remove the settlers.
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