Paineful Common Sense!

I’ve taken part in the debate several times, yet my opinions continue to be taken to the extremes– allow me to explain them more thoroughly.

Not all Jews need to make an ‘aliya’ (immigrate) to Israel.  In fact, maintaining strong communities globally is vital to our/Israel’s existence.  We need this abundance and the representation that accompanies it.  We are, however, beginning to disperse.

Factors such as intermarriage, lack of interest, little awareness, and sparse (if any) recognition in the public school system are all contributing to the weakening of the Jewish body.  This leads me to my next issue- “never again”.

People use this term far too sparingly.  Why is everyone so convinced that something comprable to the holocaust would never happen again?  These same people claiming “it would never happen again its just not possible” are the same ones speaking of a third world war.  Imagine: WW3- Israel is destroyed along with the few countries that support it (save America).  The possibilities just became FAR more realistic wouldn’t you say so?  This is why we must stay strong– if not in Israel than wherever we are.  It can happen again.  Nobody believed it in the 1940’s because it seemed far too brutal to be true… what has changed 60-some years later?  We have the state of Israel… but without it… where are we?  What do we really have?  Can we truly rely on America…. forever?

What does Benjamin Netanyahu (of the conservative Likud party) have to say about diaspora Jewry?  Click here to find out!