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Ehud Neor's avatar

Back to this Alan :)

You say: "If moving to Israel would solve the problem, I would move to Israel." Elsewhere you said: "If my moving to Israel would bring the Messiah, then I would." Doesn't this mean that lacking objective proof that the end (or progression?) of the Jewish story in Israel will be better for the Jews than the continuing story in the Diaspora, not only is there no convincing reason to move to Israel, rather, there is all the more reason to remain in the Diaspora and insist on a different narrative, of the Jews' own creation?

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Ehud Neor's avatar

Telling myself a story? More like reading the Bible and Jewish history. I think the best Jewish story of the Diaspora is the Iraqi story, that lasted over a thousand years. But it has a bad ending too. Still, I'm willing to hope with you for the triumph of liberal democracy.

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