What is wrong with some American Jews?Do they want their Israeli brethren to be slaughtered?
American Jews today (to a large degree) are the scions of Jews who left a Socialist Europe and who had already traded their identification with being Jewish for a chance to live and for a Socialist worldview, which precludes a Creator. If they hadn't dropped their religion in Europe due to pogroms or Socialism, they dropped it here in America when they couldn't find jobs which didn't require them to work on Saturdays and Jewish holidays, or when they couldn't find kosher food in far-flung communities, or synagogues or other ritual requirements--or Jewish spouses. Thus, the majority of Jews in America have only a tenuous connection to what it really means to be a Jew. They did not see their parents or grandparents doing much in the way of Jewish rituals, or openly supporting Israel. It was a joke that after your Bar Mitzvah, the phylacteries never again saw the light of day. In more modern times, it became more "bar" than "mitzvah", as newly affluent Jews sought to outdo one another in splendor and showmanship for the Bar Mitzvah reception. It was the reception which eclipsed the actual purpose of the Bar Mitzvah ritual.
Thus religiously pinioned, today's non-religious American Jews are much more interested in go-along, get-along rather than raising the ire of their neighbors over religious rituals they don't begin to understand, much less value. It's like Esau trading his birthright for a bowl of common pottage. Therefore, they are not acting like JEWS. They are acting like a debased, bastardized version of Jews. Such people do not value Israel as a consequence. Why should they? It's a distant land, they know little about it, they don't hold dear the revered sites of their ancestors. Thus, you have these unfortunate people, who never had an authentic Jewish education, voting for causes which substitute for the natural Jewish mercy: "green" projects, more welfare for the masses, anything which might give world peace a chance (as urged by John Lennon and the others these areligious Jews got their moral coaching from instead of the Torah).
Do you begin to understand? You cannot lump all American Jews together. The Orthodox Jews solidly support conservative causes, because those are much more in line with Torah values than libby profligate nonsense. Orthodox Jews hold Israel dear. Their sons and daughters very often go to yeshiva and seminary there, and frequently stay to make their home there. The sacred sites: the Western Wall, Rachel's Tomb, Machpela (the cave where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah are buried), the graves of Torah sages, legendary synagogues, etc. are not just names to religious Jews; they visit these sites, pray at them, dream of them. I remember the tears I shed in joy and reverence when at last, I was able to travel to Israel and kiss the Western Wall as I prayed there. Observant Jews who VALUE Israel would rather die than sacrifice Eretz Yisroel ("The Land of Israel").
I hope this answers your question, Farmer Dean.
The factionalism within Judaism is ferocious. Especially between Ashkenazi (Eastern European) and Sephardic (Middle Eastern) Jews. Even in Israel. Even in Jerusalem itself.
Ashkenazi are also most American Jews, and no, they don't care if the Sephardic Jews are killed. In fact, many of them would prefer it, up to and including losing Israel to accomplish it. Ashkenazi Jews adopted Judaism, while Sephardic Jews are the actual Middle Eastern Jews of the Bible.
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