American Jewry
Reading the blogs, it becomes increasingly evident that American Jewry bears little relation - if any - to the European Jewish communities of its origins, circa 80 years or so ago. What is so unsettling is the often arrogant judgement that comes from the adopted attitude of those 'Americans who happen to be born Jewish' rather than 'Jews who currently live and work in America.' The distinction being important because American Jewry, in the main, knows little of either the Europe of the last century or the Europe of this century or anything of modern Jewish history, culture and thought.
There seems to be a total ignorance of the political expediency that led to the establishment of the state of Israel, in 1948, coupled with a strange inability to recognise the real factors that drive Israeli government policy and the documented fact of corruption that is endemic in Israeli politics.
There is, of course, the equally strange acceptance of political pressure groups such as AIPAC which exist primarily to empower those who act for them, and who live, not in Israel, but in America their chosen homeland, where they conduct their business and bring up their families.
Essentially, the blog-writers tend to equate Zionism with Judaism, as if they were synonyms. The vast majority of Zionists are, of course, Christian, not Jewish, and the political Zionism of the last decades is unrecognised in Judaism.
The foreign policy of the US which includes, and has included, covertly building Israel into probably the fifth most powerful (secret) nuclear state on the planet - is the key factor in the current instability of the Middle East and the one factor that will almost inevitably bring about a nuclear war that will spread to Asia and Europe and eventually to the East Coast of America.
As the US government exports increasing military aid costing billions of dollars to Israel, it continues the extraordinary policy of making it an incongruous fortress state designed to dominate the Middle East - as a prerequisite to the nuclear war to come. But is that what Jewish Americans and Christian Zionists really want? Radioactive clouds cannot differentiate between AIPAC members and those who work on the shopfloor in Detroit or Michigan.
And as for those who think that the current economic global downturn is detrimental to their wellbeing - this is merely a flea-bite compared to the tragic consequences of the inevitable nuclear conflict to come. The only question, is when.