not those of Nazareth, is it surprising that the Arab feels alien- br

ated from the state?

The concept “Jewish” is dinned into the Arab’s angry head br

every day. Well, he is not Jewish, and what perverse madness br

prevents us from understanding his alienation and rage? Has it br

never occurred to anyone that the very existence of a Jewish br

state in the land where the Arab was once the majority makes br

him uncomfortable and that that is unacceptable to him?

The State of Israel came into being as the Jewish state, the br

sovereign homeland of the Jewish people. The State of Israel is br

the goal of Zionism, the movement of Jewish longing for a return br

to their homeland, a longing that began, not with Herzl in 1897, br

but with his great-great-ancestor, who wept as the Second Tem- br

ple was destroyed in the year 70. The State of Israel is that br

homeland for which Jews pray three times daily, turning their br

faces, not toward Mecca or Rome, but toward Jerusalem. The br

State of Israel is the dream, vision, hope, tears, yearning of a br

Jewish people that suffered humiliation, exile, agony, poverty, br

robbery, rape, burning, drowning, gasing, pogroms, Crusades, br

Inquisitions, and Auschwitzes from its varied hosts throughout br

the world. The State of Israel is the Jewish conviction that “Nev- br

er Again!” is a concept that can be realized only in a land where br

Jews control their own destiny, their own police and armed br

forces, their own guns to guarantee the kind of respect the Zhid, br

Kike, Yahud, and Yevrei never quite received from the mouths, br

fists, and boots of the majority culture where he resided in ner- br

vous insecurity. The State of Israel is the Jewish demand for a br

land in which Jews can preserve and create their own specific br

tradition and way of life free of the spiritual and social assimila- br

tion of foreign abrasive culture.

The State of Israel is the Jewish demand for what every br

other people sees as its natural right. The State of Israel is not br

a request, a plan, or a petition. It is not a favor sought while br

crouching like some pauper at the back door of the nobleman’s br

mansion. The State of Israel is the Jewish demand and affirma- br

tion of right to the land. What the Arab state of Syria is to the br

Syrians, and the Polish state to the Poles and Burundi to Burun- br

dians and Muslim Pakistan to Muslim Pakistanis and Papua to br

Papuans, so is the Jewish state—at least—to the Jews.

There is nothing to be ashamed of. There is no need to grow br