Shmuel Rosner, a political editor at The Jewish Journal, and a “Contributing Writer” at the New York Times, is all pissy at American Jews. You see, despite decades of nationalist conditioning, some American Jews who ‘identify’ with Israel and Zionism are upset about all this killing of Palestinians, and feel that they can criticize the Israeli government’s policies. And Rosner doesn’t like it! After all, he writes, “If all Jews are a family, it would be natural for Israelis to expect the unconditional love of their non-Israeli Jewish kin.” (my italics)
Rosner’s politics, as I glean it from his opinion pieces in the Times, are a bit to the left of Netanyahu; which means, that within the framework of discourse in the western world, they are somewhat to the right of rationality. This is, after all, the state of Israeli politics and political culture right now, where the “shoot and cry” liberals have mostly disappeared, moving rightward.
