come home

Come  Home I dislike Israel, but I accepted her as a historic happening and a place where Jewish culture can flourish undisturbed by foreign culture, and thus can sink into navel-gazing. But it cannot be so Europe without Jews and the Jews without Europe`s culture is a script of a disaster not yet written. We in Europe need the Jews as scientists, in the arts, but the Arab World does not need resentful Jews who brought an iron heel to people for a crime they have not committed but  guilt that lives in the culpable images of Abraham’s people. I wrote this in 2009 but many things have changed