It's hard to appreciate the level of frustration that spurs a zionist to compare his fellow Jews to Palestinians. But David Gelernter, surveying the unwillingness of American Jews to mindlessly back Bush, has reached his limit:
American Jews are not Palestinians and have not sunk to the level of supporting terrorist murderers. But their behavior is a lesson in self-destructive nihilism that could teach even the Palestinians a thing or two.
So they've not yet sunk to the level of supporting terrorist murderers? Oh David -- you flatterer!
Gelernter believes that support for Israel is such a paramount concern that not only should it be the main voting issue for American jews, but they should abandon the wildly pro-Israel Democratic Party in order to send a message to, apparently, Democratic university professors. Gelernter, in other words, is not only suggesting that Jews should have dual loyalties, but that they should let their allegiance to Israel's interests guide their choices in American leaders. Were a prominent speaker to ever suggest that such a dynamic currently exists or is in danger of arising, he'd be roundly denounced as a vicious anti-semite. Too bad excessive philo-semitism doesn't carry a similar stigma.
