Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihuxn!gadfly From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Jews and Israel Message-ID: <1146@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 21:57:52 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxn.1146 Posted: Thu Aug 22 21:57:52 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 05:39:41 EDT References: <332@sol1.UUCP> <4973@allegra.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 -- > >As Jews, what is our responsibility to the State of Israel? > > Whatever responsibility your concept of Jewishness has impelled you to > accept... > Jay Hyman Well that's certainly true by tautology (my responsibility == my responsibility), so it merely begs the question. The fly in the ointment, of course, is the Law of Return. I cringe when I read of Israel's tightness with S Africa and Somoza's Nicaragua, as I cringe when I see how I hold Israel to some surreal standard of political conduct. My philosophical contortions all derive from the Law of Return, and are quite succinctly captured by the adage: "Home is where when you knock on the door they have to let you in." -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 22 Aug 85 [5 Fructidor An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***