The Jewish Soul

Speaking out about Israel to save the Jewish soul

I recommend reading "How Israel Lost: The Four Questions" By Richard Ben Cramer
The four questions he discusses include: Why do We Care about Israel? Why Don't the Palestinians Have a State? What is a Jewish State? Why is There No Peace?

An exercept from How Israel Lost
"See, I thought I knew the country - but it turned out, I didn't. At least I couldn't understand how the country I knew was doing the things that I read about now. Maybe the country I knew was gone - buried under some new kind of nation, which was also Jews. But what kind of Jews were they? (What's the point of being Jews, if there's no ache of humanity left in you?)...And what happened to the guys I knew? As I remembered, they weren't the kind to give up.
"If I had to sum up what I thought I knew - twenty years ago, after sdeven years' contact with Israel - I would have called it 'a nice little socialist country, with one problem.' The problem, of course, was the Jews' relations with the Arabs - inside the country, in occupied lands, and in the nations nearby...Now, I'd say the 'one problem' (which the Israelis refer to in shorthand as 'the conflict') has eaten up the rest of the country."

Richard Ben Cramer won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for Middle East Reporting