| In an era in which Israel has grown to be the largest concentration of Jewry in the world, where the economy of Israel is robust and growing, the paradigm has indeed changed. The Diaspora is in identity crisis in a relatively unthreatening world and it is appropriate that Israeli Zionism adjust to address those changing needs of the Diaspora. But to view the *decreasing attachment to Israel among the American youth, higher assimilation and intermarriage throughout the Jewish world* as evidence that *the overwhelming majority of Jews live in security* is to misunderstand the problem facing our Diaspora. Zionism resulted from 1700 years of threat, sometimes overt, other times covert. Jews have always responded to periods of calm and acceptance by intermarrying and assimilating. Herzl himself was such. Yet in the depths of his unconscious was the realization that no matter how tranquil the Diaspora, just below that surface of that calm lays a historical fact: Christianity poses a threat |
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