Being right is not enough sometimes.
There is a manner and means of saying hard truths like this.
OK ... I just re-read the article.
Twice.
She’s right on all counts.
This isn’t even a “hard truth”. It’s a simple truth, stated plainly. Anyone who finds it “hard” needs to look in the mirror to locate the problem.
Except when a good shot to the kippeh is needed to get one focused. (Did I get that right?)
My late MIL, smart doctor, related her family's story. Her parents came from Austria after WWI, settled in rural Pennsylvania and established a good sized farm with a large family. Not wealthy, but comfortable, and managed to live through the depression better than most. Meanwhile, the Austrian side waxed and married even better, maybe upper middle class as was related to.
My MIL family read the tea leaves correctly after Kristalnacht and repeated plead with the Vienna branch to leave, come to America where there was room on the farm. A safe haven from which to regroup. The replies from Vienna were dripping with disdain. "We are Austrian, well established before Franz Jussel. We have a place in society, we are comfortable and safe with our well placed Austrian friends. And you would have us give this up because of your fears from thousands of miles away? To move to some primitive farm? Bah! (A rather more unkind term was used and never translated for me.)
You can guess the fate of the Austrian branch, none survived. To her dying day my MIL thought she and her family didn't try hard enough, didn't say the right words to the branch that identified themselves as Austrian uber alles.
So, my question to you is, how many of the first modern Israelis related similar stories and regrets? How many survivors admitted to the same mindset as the Austrian Jews mentioned?
Seems to me that the 80% or so of American Jews supported Obama, the ones who love to say "Never Again" and used to say "Next year in Jerusalem" at UJA dinners will see the Muslims pledge "Next year in Jerusalem" come to fruition. Or do you not see an existential threat to Israel?