Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell do you think you're kidding? Do you seriously expect your readers to believe that if there were 6 million Arabs sitting in prominent positions in politics, finance and mass communications in this country and only a handful of Jewish rug peddlers, that Presidents from Roosevelt through Ford would have been outspoken Zionists...
There are millions of Americans like myself who, while we sympathize with the sufferings of the Jewish people under tyrants from Torquemada through Hitler, do not feel that the U.S. is obliged to guarantee the territorial integrity of Israel. Don't give us any more of that "because it is right" jive. I don't want my son dumping his guts on the Negev sand in the interests of Zionism, and I think most Americans feel the same...
Feral Magnetism. As the Frenchman descended from hero to convict, the Hungarian rose from dilettante to provocateur. Herzl did not invent the idea of a Jewish state-the appeal of Return to Jerusalem is, after all, as ancient as the Diaspora. But Herzl alone took it from vision to plan to practicality. On the way he assumed the countenance and the stature of a prophet, sweeping all objections from his path. A feral magnetism began to animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with...
Many involved in this propaganda appear to be arrogant, militant zealots. These persons want to raid the U.S. Treasury for Israel and even want the U.S. Army to kill Arabs for Israel. History tells us the Jewish people always push too far, then cry persecution when pushed back. They are playing a perilous game with potentially dire consequences...
...worried" about having to make the "agonizing choice" but, as you state, we are "American Jews," not Jewish Americans. If forced to choose, many of us (myself included) will side with the blue and white Star of David, for, as you stated, "The Jews are one people ... You cannot separate parent from child, the Jews from Zion...