I consider myself a Zionist. However, so does Ori Nir, the local director of Peace Now. I also consider myself an Orthodox Jew. However, so do members of Neturei Karta that side with Hamas over the Jewish state.
We are all right. Richard Cohen, however, is really correct because he states all too clearly that if we don’t come to some consensus – if we don’t find a way to unite as a Jewish people – we will be destroyed … and it will be no one’s fault but our own.
You see this in-fighting blatantly in Israel, it’s true, where “settlers” are pitted against members of Peace Now and where ultra-Orthodox Jews violently violate Shabbat to throw stones at secular drivers who purposefully and disrespectfully try to disrupt the calm of the religious neighborhoods.
