Neocons sometimes reveal their conservatism as Jewish religious parochialism. Bill Kristol did so at Yivo. And here is Martin Kramer in the Jerusalem Post, dripping with righteous condescension toward Khalidi and Obama as half-made men. Sounds like Naipaul of 20 years back:
For such people caught between traditions, Third Worldist sympathies
often serve as ecumenical substitutes for religion. (Obama himself
allows that as an undergraduate, "in the dorms, we discussed
neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy." One wonders
how Israel fared in those conversations.)
What Kramer fails to understand is that this situation of being "caught between traditions" is the human condition, the condition of modernity, of history, and yes, too, of progress. Who in the American elite is not perplexed/intrigued/delighted/staggered by the confluence of so many crumbling traditions that a body must step over (including Protestantism spavined by entitlement, Catholicism by pedophilia and Judaism by dual-loyalty)? Well, the neocons. They are not uncertain, and now they are over.
