{"id":639,"date":"2004-03-26T18:48:55","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T01:48:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-26T18:48:55","modified_gmt":"2004-03-27T01:48:55","slug":"dont-look-at-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/26\/dont-look-at-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Look at Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.jewsweek.com\/bin\/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&#038;enDisplay=view&#038;enDispWhat=object&#038;enDispWho=Article%5El1095&#038;enZone=Opinions&#038;enVersion=0&#038;>He said it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>Israel may be the Jewish state, but as <i>American<\/i> Jews, it is not our country. It belongs to us only insofar as we share a spiritual connection to it with Jews the world over. If you&#8217;re planning to make <i>aliyah<\/i> in the near future, go ahead and make Israel your flagship issue come November. On the other hand, if you&#8217;re like the vast majority of American Jews who have no intention of moving to Jerusalem, stop pretending domestic policy matters less to our communal future than Israel. <\/p>\n<p>They used to say Jews were a Democratic bulwark to be taken for granted. Now we&#8217;ve become something worse, a single-issue voting bloc devoid of nuance. While we cling to feel good rhetoric and praise a hands-off approach that has produced only diplomatic stagnation and three years of bloodshed, traditional Jewish positions on a host of domestic issues have been undermined. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time we reshuffle our political priorities, and move Israel down the list.<\/ul>\n<p>Gutsy essay by Bradford Pilcher. Here&#8217;s his new-to-me <a href=http:\/\/justanotherrant.blogspot.com\/>blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said it: Israel may be the Jewish state, but as American Jews, it is not our country. It belongs to us only insofar as we share a spiritual connection to it with Jews the world over. If you&#8217;re planning to make aliyah in the near future, go ahead and make Israel your flagship issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}