Thank you Mitchell. I appreciate your passionate plea for diaspora Jews to wake up and support Israel's soul (it's ethical, moral identity) as well as it's body (its military security).
Your plea echoes the words of Oded Naaman of Breaking the Silence, an Israeli IDF veteran who recently spoke in the U.S. & had two appearances in the Bay Area. He also made a passionate plea to American Jews to recognize the present danger to Israel's soul. He said that the Israel we love would soon be utterly lost if we continue to only support her physical survival.
As an American Jew, I am heartbroken over our failure to recognize the necessity of support for the soul of Israel. I know that Martin Buber would be similarly heart-broken were he to return. If only the early Zionists had followed Buber's prophetic vision for an Israel/Palestine confederation based on Jewish-Palestinian cooperation. Then we would truly have been "a light to all nations".