Your statement “The first was a matter of choice. The Jews were already a global people, many of whom lived outside the Land of Israel by decision, not compulsion, while maintaining a deep attachment to Zion — a historical and religious homeland.”—
My readings from various sources indicate that your reference to the people above mentioned: those people were descendants of others who had been forcibly deported from Jerusalem and from Israel generations prior.
Diaspora Jews are even more wishy-washy than Israeli Jews. The latter at least fight back when they are being bombarded, but even they do not move on to take the steps to eradicate the problem posed by their Palestinian enemies and their hypocritical Arab Muslim neighbours. Israeli elites have absorbed quite a bit of diaspora Jewish mentality. Just look at their pathetic judicial and electoral systems, whose origins can be traced right back to the Bible.
Regarding your next description “The second was exile in the full sense of the word. It shaped much of the Jewish People’s spiritual and historical character, and it was not chosen. It unfolded under constraint, marked by extraordinary religious, economic, and cultural achievements, but also by degradation, persecution, pogroms and, ultimately, the near-total catastrophe of the Holocaust.
In this second condition, Jews had no option but to exist as a minority. In the first, they elected to do so as free people. Such a distinction is crucial.”——
This description fits not only the century prior to our present one, but it also describes the same and similar treatments of Jewish people at the time the First Temple was destroyed in Jerusalem,
As well as five hundred years later when the Second Temple was destroyed;
Therefore, any diaspora group of Jewish people had cause either physically forcibly or mentally and emotionally forcibly to emigrate from Jerusalem Israel.
Even the ten men Moses sent into the Land originally, felt fear and pressure to leave.
Your statement “The first was a matter of choice. The Jews were already a global people, many of whom lived outside the Land of Israel by decision, not compulsion, while maintaining a deep attachment to Zion — a historical and religious homeland.”—
My readings from various sources indicate that your reference to the people above mentioned: those people were descendants of others who had been forcibly deported from Jerusalem and from Israel generations prior.
Diaspora Jews are even more wishy-washy than Israeli Jews. The latter at least fight back when they are being bombarded, but even they do not move on to take the steps to eradicate the problem posed by their Palestinian enemies and their hypocritical Arab Muslim neighbours. Israeli elites have absorbed quite a bit of diaspora Jewish mentality. Just look at their pathetic judicial and electoral systems, whose origins can be traced right back to the Bible.
What is the diaspora going to teach Israel? How to be Jews with trembling knees?
Regarding your next description “The second was exile in the full sense of the word. It shaped much of the Jewish People’s spiritual and historical character, and it was not chosen. It unfolded under constraint, marked by extraordinary religious, economic, and cultural achievements, but also by degradation, persecution, pogroms and, ultimately, the near-total catastrophe of the Holocaust.
In this second condition, Jews had no option but to exist as a minority. In the first, they elected to do so as free people. Such a distinction is crucial.”——
This description fits not only the century prior to our present one, but it also describes the same and similar treatments of Jewish people at the time the First Temple was destroyed in Jerusalem,
As well as five hundred years later when the Second Temple was destroyed;
Therefore, any diaspora group of Jewish people had cause either physically forcibly or mentally and emotionally forcibly to emigrate from Jerusalem Israel.
Even the ten men Moses sent into the Land originally, felt fear and pressure to leave.