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  Rethinking Jewish American deterrence
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Last EditedPenguin  Sep 09, 2006 09:11pm
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MediaNewspaper - Ha Aretz
News DateSunday, September 10, 2006 03:10:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionJust as the war in Lebanon has shaken Israel's sense of deterrence and led to a reevaluation of the state's strategic outlook and military capabilities, American Jewry needs to evaluate the implications of the latest Middle East crisis for the ongoing use of Israel to deter our own communal concerns and the tactics we have employed to support the Jewish state.

Ever since the waiting period that preceded the June 1967 Arab-Israel War, Israel has remained at the center of American Jewry's philanthropic and political agenda. The height of Israel's appeal was reached in the decade following the Six-Day War, during what sociologist Steven M. Cohen has termed "the golden age of American Jewry's mobilized model," when a sometimes paradoxical concern over the state's very existence mixed with a new-found Jewish pride over its military prowess and machismo character.
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