Look at the situation now: Arab oil boycotts bearing down on a Western Europe. America. and Japan already frightened by the "energy crisis." American power distracted by an internal agony over national identity and purpose that began in the sixties and is simply continuing in Watergate. and will not end there. Hostility between Western and Russian immigrants and Oriental immigrants to Israelhostility over housing and public services. and over communal dignity. that cannot be eased so long as 40 per cent of Israels gross national product is spent on the military. The erosion of nonJewish support for Israel as the remnant of the holocaust. amid growing doubts of the justice of a permanent occupation of the Palestinian west bank and Gaza and of the Egyptian Sinai. The beginnings of articulate criticism among young American Jews of blind financial and political support for an arthritic Israeli bureaucracy and policy--even as these same young American Jews create stronger and stronger ties to real live people and communities in Israel.
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