So it is that the Jewish problem has come full cycle: from a ghetto imposed to a ghetto selfestablished. The prophecies of equanimity. of Jewish cultural fulfillment and of a Jewish messianic role are now floundering between the Scylla of Israeli militancy and the Charybdis of the Palestinian resistance. Alongside the tragedy of the Palestine refugees stands the equally tragic image of the Israeli Jew. who is caught between the prescriptions of a political ideology he did not invent and the circumstances of a political world he needs to join. For paradoxically. only by becoming an integral part of the Middle East can the Jewish presence in Palestine provide the cultural center and the political haven which have been so central to the Zionist dream. The resolution of these problems which Zionism has engendered depends on the regularization of Israels relationship to the Jewish community in the world and the Arab milieu in which it exists.
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