Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the State of Israel has given Jews a political presence in the world they have not had since biblical times.
Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.
American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.