What, media mouthpieces not getting it done?
"6 Israeli lawmakers to visit US for study of Jewish community" April 02, 2011|By Jay Lindsay, Associated Press
Six Israeli lawmakers are headed to the United States this weekend for an intense study of American Jewish life amid concerns about a growing gap between American and Israeli Jews....
You can only defend an a**hole and his boorish behavior for so long.
The six-day program aims to give the legislators a detailed understanding of the structure and history of the American Jewish community. Each day is devoted to a single aspect of it, such as “How the Case of Israel is Made in United States,’’ and includes lectures and meetings with American Jewish leaders in academics, business, philanthropy, and even entertainment. A town hall-style meeting at Brandeis will let critics of Israeli policy question the lawmakers....
Primarily through its newspapers and indoctrinating, 'er, inculcating, um, ejerkashunel institutions.
The Ruderman fellowships target influential Israelis to ensure that different perspectives do not harden into permanent divisions within the small global Jewish population, which “would be disastrous for the Jewish people,’’ said founder of the fellows program, Jay Ruderman....
As if any group was monolithic and represented by one entity or body.
What this is about is equating Judaism with Israel, and woe to those who question it!
The global Jewish population is estimated at 13.4 million, with Israel (5.7 million) and the United States (5.25 million) home to nearly 82 percent of the total.
It TRULY IS the USraeli Empire!!!
Numbers are not all that make the communities vital to each other, said Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna, a specialist in American Jewish history who helped design the program.
Israel sees itself as a physical and spiritual homeland for Jews worldwide, and the American community is by far the most influential outside Israel.
What did I tell you?
Meanwhile, American Jews expect understanding from its government the same way American Catholics expect the Vatican to try to understand them, Sarna said.
I think more Americans are trying to understand the pooper-pumping Vatican these days.
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I'm sorry, readers, but I don't see how a case can be made for a lying, thieving, mass-murdering, WMD-using band of war criminals.
Also see: Are we too critical of Israel?
