Mich hat eine böse Grippe in den Klauen, bin deswegen grade nicht fähig, einen eigenen Gedanken zu formulieren und tippe hier nur eine Stelle aus Saul Bellow´s Buch “To Jerusalem And Back” ab, die ich vor vielen Jahren mal schwarz angestrichen habe. Und ich wüsste gern, Alan, ob Du das auch für Bullshit hältst (ich habe mir die Stelle natürlich deshalb angestrichen, weil ich sie nicht für Bullshit halte, sondern für schmerzaft wahr):

In Jakov Lind´s interesting brief book on Israel, Ben-Gurion is quoted as saying, “The Jews know hardly anything of a hell that might await them. Their hell is a personal dissatisfaction with themselves if they are mediocre.” Jews do, it is well known, make inordinate demands upon themselves and upon one another. Upon the world, too. I occasionally wonder whether that is why the world is so uncomfortable with them. At times I suspect that the world would be glad to see the last of its Christianity, and that it is the persistency of the Jews that prevents it. I say this remembering that Jacques Maritain once characterized European anti-Semitism of the twentieth century as an attempt to get rid of the moral burden of Christianity. And what is it that has led the Jews to settle themselves, after the greatest disaster of their history, in a danger zone? A Jewish preofessor at Harvard recently said to me, “Wouldn´t it be the most horrible of ironies if the Jews had collected themselves conveniently in one country for a second Holocaust?” This is a thought that sometimes crosses Jewish minds. It is accompanied by the further reflection (partly proud, mostly bitter) that we Jews seem to have a genius for finding the heart of the crisis.

(Geschrieben, bitte schön, 1976!)