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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: Jews and Israel
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 21:57:52 EDT
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> >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."
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