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Diaspora Obligations

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How is the ideal that needs
loyalty to be defined?
The monthly publication of
the World Zionist Organiza-
tion, Israel Scene, discussing
aliyah versus yeridah, gave
the answer in an historical
fashion. Editorializing, draw-
ing upon our historic ex-
periences and needs, it gave
this definition:
The Jews have just one
national home — one to
which their vision has
been directed in yearning
and in prayer for countless
generations. Zionism and
aliyah are synonymous —
one cannot exist without
the other. Israel cannot
look upon yeridah with
equanimity and dispas-
sion. Every Jew lost to this
country is a loss that we-
cannot afford; it is a
hemorrhage of the very life
blood flowing in our na-
tional veins.
Israel is very far from be-
ing an ideal society. We are
generously endowed with
stresses and strains,
pressures of daily living —
of earning our daily bread,
of living peaceably with
one another and not just
with our neighbors. But
each and every Jew who
comes here is a piece of the
mortar that binds us
together and gives the
whole edifice strength and
support. Each one of us
who lives here has the op-
portunity to add another
voice to the quest for a bet-
ter life and society. Each
one of us who leaves is
akin to removing a piece of
that mortar from the wall
of the edifice.
Israel's founders knew
that certain realities, like
certain rules, must be over-
come. If we are to continue
strengthening this nation,
we dare not succumb —
with a philosophic shrug —
to the unpleasant realities
of too little aliyah and too
much yeridah. The com-
bination of the two
phenomena is a reality we
simply cannot afford.
The ideal defined here re-
tains the inspiration of the
ages. It reasserts the bless-
ings of redemption. Yet, there
are confrontations that are
often resolved into rebukes.
The major one relates to
criticism of kinfolk, of fellow
Jews in redeemed Israel who,
in the process of enjoying
sovereignty, also are agonized
by errors which occasionally
develop into sins.
The enormity of opi-
nionating, the numerous dif-
fering views, the occasionally-
terrifying ways in which
religious elements battle for
power, should have convinced

the fault-finders that
criticism is not strange to
Jews. In the process of en-
couraging it, there must be
an even more powerful
adherence to cooperativeness
in state-protecting. The
historic result of Zionist
fulfillment and state-building
marks Prophecy realized and
cannot be denigrated.
There have always been the
denigrators in our ranks.
Even the extremists have
never denied the right of Jews
to survive even if the few who
pursue such propagandizing
continue to fulminate. They
cannot attain the minutest
support. Even the single rab-
bi now turned to academia
who disgraces his calling by
introducing a hatred for the
Zionist cause will only be met
with contempt. It will surely
gain unanimity of
endorsement.
Perhaps there will soon be c
a cessation of yeridah. In the
legacy that spells life in the
spirit of indestructible sur-
vivalism, only the positive ap-

Israel's founders
knew that certain
realities must be
overcome.

proach is permissible.
Therefore, in an era of
criticism, there is the faith
that even yeridah in the pre-
sent form will not be domi-
nant. It may be chutzpah for
one in the Diaspora to write
in such terms, but the ideal
represented by aliyah and a
continuing progressive Israel
this would build represents a
hi ecessary defense of the fort
by the eventual victors.
What, can non-Israeli Jews
do to help resolve so serious
a problem as a Modern
Exodus?
Briefly, spontaneously, it
should be declared that a uni-
ty assuring the normalcy of
Israel, the immensity of its
idealism, the responsibility to
the inherited duties, rank
first in the consideration of
the problem. There is a great
need for retention of the
Zionist idealism. This must
be primary in cementing
loyalties.
The growing outcry now be-
ing heard endorsing criticism
of Isreal, in the assumption
that there is a lack of it, must,'
under no circumstance,
assume a destructive
character. There can be a
recognition of faults
necessitating the severest
condemnations, without stab-
bing in the back and under-
mining Redemption. This is

