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...memoirs, Menachem Begin wrote fiercely of the emergence of "the Fighting Jew." For much of Jewish history, through the long centuries of the Diaspora, that phrase was an oxymoron, a kind of contradiction in terms. Israel was the creation of fighting Jews, of course, but at least until the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel was the heroic and democratic underdog struggling for its very existence in the vast and hostile Arab wilderness. For a couple of thousand years, Jewish morality presupposed a kind of victim's righteousness, the special blamelessness of those without great collective power. Now Israel...
...examining it for patterns. She succeeds in detecting a few basic clues. The later movies are subtler than the early ones, for example, and Allen the artist separates himself more and more from Allen the persons. Oh, and there are some continuing themes: the contrast of the New York Jew-schlemiel personality with various exotic locates, say, and the difficulties of love in the modern world. But in order to deduce fro.. these indications anything illuminating or even interesting about Allen, maybe Jacobs could use a degree or two in psychology...
With the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, Begin adapted his militant views to politics. He was never a consensus seeker; he dominated his supporters by the force of his personality. He also sees himself as leading a kind of mission on behalf of the Jews. Says an intimate: "He still believes Jews are the victims of hatred and prejudice. Jewish blood, the sight of helpless Jews being killed by enemies and pogroms. The fear of elimination and liquidation. That's what goes through his mind all the time." Says a Begin aide: "He feels a duty...
Though his tone is far angrier than most, Podhoretz is not the only American Jew to fear a revival of anti-Semitism in the wake of the Lebanon invasion. Says Chicago Radio Producer Sher: "After the 1956 war and the other conflicts up to this time, Israelis were the golden boys, even in the minds of people who at home were anti-Semitic toward American Jews. Now the perception is, 'Hey, these guys are bullies.' " Sher fears that hostility toward Jews historically increases during times of economic trouble like that the U.S. is experiencing...
...Jews the holiest place in Jerusalem is not there. It is the site of the destroyed Temple, and the Temple is not there. Nor is anyone sure exactly where the tabernacle was located within the Temple. Yet the spot is so sacred, no Jew will walk in the grounds for fear of treading on it. If it is possible, as an act of imagination, to believe that strongly in a place no longer there, it should be equally possible to believe in a peace with the Arabs that is not yet there either. For too long now Israel has peered...