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This blog's formerly resident troll (who regrettably had to be put down after he contracted a terminal case of mange of the mouth) recently demanded this blog's review of the latest left Zionist product of the apologist/appeasement industry; The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart.
The troll got a review copy, it seems. This blog did not. Therefore not having read the book this blog declines to review it. A trivial copout I know and not normally regarded as a handicap for reviewers but there you have it.
However here is the next best thing. A debate between Daniel Gordos and Peter Breinhart on “Zionism is a failing experiment—and American Jews are hastening its decline.”
A review of the debate from the (left/liberal) Jewish Daily Forward is here.
(hat tip Israellycool)
What did you do
ReplyDeleteAmerican Jew
in 2012 or 1942
‘cause business was good
and they didn't come for You?
What did you do
when the world turned its head
and six million Jews
were soon to be dead
but you just didn't know
and business was slow
and the kid needed shoes
no time for some Jews
What will you do
American Jew
As the nations align
our Homeland maligned
for the whole world to see...
yet our president balks
at the ominous news
saving words of rebuke
for 'intransigent' Jews
and six million more
getting ready to die?
What did you do
and what will you say
when the question is asked
that won't go away...
that you watched
and you waited
your life unabated
and just didn't are
to risk such a dare
...and the grandsons
made Harvard, Hooray!
Pray for Israel
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/my-crisis-of-zionism-and-ours-20120502#ixzz1uBHdwBcq
Theo,
ReplyDeletegreat poem, although not for the reasons that you seem to think, given your link.
It probably is true that American Jews now, like American Jews then, are not standing up. But what they are not standing up for are the Jewish people of the Middle East who remain under siege in a 100 year war against a far larger enemy.
1,400 years of persecution by the Arab nation.
1,300 years of dhimmitude followed by 100 years of war.
300 to 400 million Arabs versus 6 million Jews.
And who do you side with?