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MR. ALAN'S

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PLURALISM from page 32

presents

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Their battlefield tactics:
* To apply oblique economic lever-
age, through the UJA-federation fund-
raising system. This follows the advice
of the infamous British General Bark-
er, who advised the pre-state Manda-
tory government to "hit the Jews
where it hurts — in their pocket."
* To apply direct economic pressure
by encouraging or discouraging con-
gregants to support individual Israeli
politicians. This is reminiscent of the
tactics of certain Chinese and Korean
gentlemen in their dealings with the
Clinton-Gore campaign.
* To depict Israel as a fundamental-
ist and benighted backwater. This is
already discernibly catalyzing the
process of alienation from Israel affect-
ing younger American Jews.
The outcome, however, may well
be very different — and infinitely
more traumatic — than these rabbis
understand.
Israel's reaction, eventually, may be
"a plague on both your houses,"
Orthodox and Reform alike. Israelis of
all religious persuasions may get fed
up with being used as a battlefield in
American Jewry's internecine war.
That war, after all, is unwinnable as
long as Israel defines itself as a Jewish
state — if only because 1.8 million
American Reform Jews subscribe to
patrilinealism whereas Israel's Law of
Return defines a Jew as one born of a
Jewish mother.
When the moment of across-the-
board Israeli turn-off comes, the credo
of Israel for the Israelis, currently
advocated by only a small stream
among the Jewish and Arab intelli-
gentsia, may sweep the political stage,
offering an authentically Israeli solu-
tion to the incessant, enervating pres-
sure from the outside. This movement
calls for the abrogation, at some
defined future date, of the Law of
\ Return. All persons, of whatever reli-
gion, living in Israel at that date,
would be Israelis. All others, whether
Jews or gentiles, would henceforth
have to go through regular naturaliza-
tion procedures if they wished to
immigrate to Israel.
Under assault from American non-
Orthodoxy, Israel's large Orthodox
community may join forces with the
post-Zionists to strip Israel of its statu-
tory Jewishness. (The Orthodox are
already creating their own rolls of "real
Jews" and are urging secular Israelis to
register.) Religion and the state would
suddenly be separated — but not at
all in the way that American Jews
intended. ❑

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