You just have to feel sorry for the folk who run the Jewish Agency and Israeli Prime Minister’s office.
Tasked with defending the world’s most unpopular nation – a State surrounded by aggrieved and exasperated neighbours, that is despised worldwide for its callous brutality over more than 60 years – they must feel stressed at the best of times.
If they stay in the USA, half of these young people might 'go missing'!
If it was only a matter of hate – something they understand rather well – they’d be laughing!
But life is not that simple. There’s also pesky, insidious thing called love to worry about. Love may be prove to be the most serious existential threat to the millennial fantasies of Zion’s elders. Why, it might undermine the juniors’ respect for protocol!
Love over gold?
Will the mysterious cosmic force of love be the eventual undoing of Jewish Apartheid? Shall admirers of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jesus and Buddha, all share the last laugh?
Too much unrestrained mutual attraction between human beings spells long-term decline for the Zionist project – by denying it a sufficient population base of separatist fanatics.
The hard cases in Tel Aviv know that. And they’re not happy.
Here’s the story from Haaretz (emphasis added):
By Dana Weiler-Polak, Haaretz Correspondent
The Prime Minister’s Office and the Jewish Agency unveiled an aggressive advertisement campaign for the Masa project which is designed to strengthen Jewish identity among youths in the Diaspora and their bonds to Israel.
One video clip likens Jews who marry outside of the religion to missing persons, with fake notices and pictures which drive home the point.
As part of the campaign, similar “missing person” notices will be plastered on walls around the country.
Masa hopes the campaign will spur the public to commit to the cause of preventing marriage to non-Jews, which Jewish Agency officials believe is tantamount to a “strategic national threat.“
According to figures compiled by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, over 50 percent of Jews in the Diaspora marry a non-Jewish partner.
Studies show that Jews who participate in extensive programs in Israel deepen their Jewish identity and strengthen their bond to the country. Most of them marry Jews and send their children to Jewish schools and become politically and socially active on behalf of Israel-related causes. Some of them even immigrate to Israel.
The head of the campaign, Motti Scharf, compared assimilation to the critical water shortage. “Even though this is an existential problem, the public in Israel is displaying apathy towards it because the process is slow and not dramatic, out of sight,” he said. “The time has come to put the issue on the table.”
