Wrong on the classic nation-state: its founding assumption, in fact, was that the state was to be the instrument of its national group. Countries like France and Italy are an exemption -- for more typical examples see Armenia, Bosnia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands and so forth. Including, well, Israel, which is nothing if not typical.
Misguided on the JPPPI: if they are so concerned about the diaspora, why don`t they hire anyone from the diaspora? Heck, even an internship program for Harvard and Princeton and Sciences po public affairs graduates they don`t have -- a basin you`d think they`d be eager to draw on. |
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