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Sir, - British Jews who sign declarations condemning Israel are like the "modern," assimilated Jews in Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s who despised their shabby, Yiddish- speaking hassidic brethren from the East (Ost-Juden). "We understand people who hate them, but we're not like...

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Published inThe Jerusalem post
Main Author Tuvia Fogel, Jackie Altman, Matthew Berman, Thelma Jacobson, Fred Gottlieb, Shubert Spero, Arlene Sevrinsky
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 07.02.2007
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Summary:Sir, - British Jews who sign declarations condemning Israel are like the "modern," assimilated Jews in Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s who despised their shabby, Yiddish- speaking hassidic brethren from the East (Ost-Juden). "We understand people who hate them, but we're not like them," they would whine. "They're bad Jews, while we're good Jews." Of course when Hitler came it didn't help them. Now that it's uncool to say you hate Jews, Israel has become "the Jew among the nations," and nothing is cooler than hating Israel. The pathological cowards among us are shouting, "Look, I'm a good Jew - I'm condemning Israel!" Sir, - I think that it is unwise to blame UNIFIL for Hizbullah's activity in Lebanon ("IDF: UNIFIL not halting Hizbullah border hostilities," February 6). The Israeli government under Ehud Barak chose to evacuate the IDF from Lebanon back in 2000, and while Ariel Sharon was an excellent leader after Barak he could have done something to fill the void left by the evacuation, which ultimately resulted in the war last summer.