Useful Idiots: Israel Style II

About ten years ago I got a ride from a friend who's a famous scholar at Hebrew University. At the time, it was becoming very clear that the debate over the Oslo accords was really a debate over whether Israel should be a Jewish State.

[Let me explain, Beilin and Company are adamently against Israel being tangibly Jewish. If you read anything written in the last ten years by Beilin, Aloni, Pundak, Savir, Peres, Gideon Levi, Daniel Ben Simon etc. you"ll see that Judaism (of any stripe) is not part of the plan. Hence, Meron Bevenisti caled for changing the flag, the anthem and God knows what else in order to have peace.
Amos Oz, who's been doing Teshuva for years because Dr. Joseph Klausner was his uncle, has always wanted Judaism tossed out. He sees Jews as living in a museum, a bunch of fossils.

Anyway, I asked him if he thought there was historical precedent for what was going on. He said that there was. The program of the Hellenists in the period of Antiochus IV Epiphanes was a principled agenda of assimilation an cultural self-immolation. That's what IMacc. 1, 11 means: "Let us go and make an alliance with the Gentiles all around us; since we separated from them, many evils have come upon us." So, he continued, we're at the stage where Menelaus is the High Priest, the Tobiads are ruling the country, the Jews are in deep trouble, the Torah's attacked by all of the 'enlightened' elements of society, and there's no Mattathias on the horizen.

This week reminded me that things have gone from bad to worse. Justice Barak and his co-horts are on a roll undermining anything Jewish here. A judge in a district court is forcing a couple to do DNA testing to determine a baby's parentage, even though it will prove mamzerut, Poraz (in his role as Menelaus) is regularizing the status of goyyim born here but refuses to recognize converts, Eretz Aheret magazine is publishing articles supporting intermarriage ('Love conquers All") etc etc etc.