When I first moved outside the city, I had a neighbor who was a drunk. I liked the guy a lot. He was funny and smart. He helped me with home improvement stuff, and I watched him die before my eyes. Another neighbor told me that Jim couldn’t leave a party so long as there was an unfinished keg there. As the years went by he got laid off and got filthier and scruffier. He’d buy a case in the afternoon. No one did anything. It was just like what Sherwood Anderson wrote about in Winesburg Ohio. This guy was going down the tube and no one lifted a finger. Maybe a couple people reached out, but mostly we just watched. He died in his early 50s.
This is what’s happening in Jewish life right now. Israel is committing suicide and the American Jewish community goes around telling the goyim what a vibrant democracy it is. In Israel they’re desperate, the people of conscience. From Haaretz:
South Africa is already here
The government is trying to build a protected autonomy for the Jewish majority and a stunted autonomy for the Arab minority.
By Zvi Bar’el
