Well, it is always good to read yet another sweet article attempting to explain the American Jews’ tenacious loyalty to the increasingly anti-Israeli Democratic Party with convincing and articulate arguments, but I think it is also time to cut the crap and to start addressing the truth, which may not be too, er, PC.

Here in Israel, most of the (Reform) American Jews are not even recognized as Jews by the State, and with increasingly good reasons. It takes a major effort for an Israeli Jew to detect anything remindful of Judaism-as-we-know-it in he ritual practiced in their synagogues, and some of the more religious-minded among us do indeed take offense at what they see as a caricature of a millennial tradition. A large section of American Jewry seems to have drifted away from both Jewish ethnicity and culture, and have developed their own religion and identity, which we cannot identify with. These people, while certainly our kinsmen owing to their (diluted) origins, are no longer part of the Jewish Nation, and as such they owe us nothing.

While most Israelis are either ignorant of, or indifferent to the American Jewish reality, there still subsists a strong basis of affection for Americans, which has nothing to do with military aid packages and owes everything to kinship and cultural perceptions, from which most of the major concerns of American Jewish liberalism are entirely excluded. Nobody here cares a damn about gay rights (Where’s the problem?) or abortion laws in the days of the OTC next-day pill, and no-one is wary of Sara Palin and her high-powered deer rifle.

American Jews justifiably resent their exclusion by the Israeli Rabbinate, and the truth is that they despise the pushy and uncouth Israelis who remind them too much of their less-educated, red-state compatriots. Their legendary aversion for the Christian fundies is also easily explained by the simple fact that, if given the chance, these people would like nothing more than to buy their Jews a one-way ticket to Israel in order to fulfill this or that apocalyptic prophecy.

There is therefore absolutely no reason to expect the US former Jews to shift their political views in order to suit our strategic needs. Most of them do not care about us a bit, and some would even love to see us go under and stop being a stumbling block on their way to assimilation into the general American population.

We’ve been around for a long time, and this indeed is one of the least traumatic schismatic losses in our history. We’ll get over it. Peace.