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Arthur Hertzberg, a renowned Jewish historian and a vocal critic of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s policies, warned that if demographic trends persist, the Arab population will grow to constitute a majority within the current borders of the State of Israel in the next 20 years...
...notion that Jews can become the new South Africa—and that not only the Jewish conscience but the American conscience will live with it—is a pipe dream,” Hertzberg said...
Hertzberg, who was president of the American Jewish Congress from 1972 to 1978, emerged as an eminent force in Jewish thought with the 1959 publication of his textbook, The Zionist Idea...
...United States must “shove peace down Israel’s throat,” but the Bush administration is “too busy fishing for money from rich Jewish Republicans, Hertzberg said...
...well-respected, influential figure presents radical ideas to the masses in a turbulent era. His revolutionary views rapidly spread, throwing parts of the Jewish community into uproar, its political and intellectual leaders preparing to crucify him. Many scholars in Boston and at Harvard suggest the lines are quickly blurring between the controversial acts of Jesus Christ and Mel Gibson—and that the analogy has been fashioned by none other than Gibson himself...