JustASC

My column this week – the Great Montclair Advertising War and American Jews’ discomfort with the war in Gaza:

[I]n private, I’ve heard a level of unease with the Gaza war that I haven’t heard perhaps since the first Lebanon War. Friends and acquaintances want answers to military questions and also want to discuss the non-military alternatives. And those kinds of discussions, I must say, are harder to have in a community that is quicker to rally in support of Israel’s troops than of its peacemakers. Unfortunately, Jewish organizations are more likely to reach consensus when the rockets fly than when negotiating partners put pen to paper.

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