These are two very perceptive people; Natan shall forever be my/our hero of Modern Jewish History. They both know far more than I, but, really?
One of my friends sent the article to me with the question: "What do you think?" I offer the same question to all of you.
But, responding to my chaver...
What's going on here?"Thanks for sharing this article with me. I thought it well-written, if terribly slanted as I discuss below.The article contained “red herrings” almost too numerous to count: for example, referencing a single Boston Jew’s overstatement, as representing American Jewish opinion creates a false narrative so as to set up the authors’ thesis. There is too much of that in the article. Further, there is no acknowledgement by the authors that a major, contributing factor in the current “distancing” are the policies of the Netanyahu Government. (Remarkable to me was the authors’ rationalization [justification??] of Netanyahu’s breach of the Kotel Agreement.)I consider the proposed Jewish Peoples Council to be a preposterous suggestion, especially when the co-author just moments ago stepped down from his 9 year Chairmanship of the Jewish Agency — the organization that characterized itself during Sharansky’s terms (and, historically) as “the Parliament of the Jewish People.” I can’t conceive of Diaspora financial support for this Council let alone Knesset members agreement to some sort of co-equal debating society."
Rhetorical question.
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Does anyone believe we need another structure? Why didn't Sharansky assure during his termS that JAFI fulfilled its advocacy role for the Jewish People; rather than maintain it as qa self-perpetuating oligarchy where laypersons never leave?
This proposal is the height of stupidity -- so it will probably be embraced by those very communities which have reduced their grants to the Jewish Agency a/k/a The Parliament of the Jewish People to a fraction of what they once were.
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