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the world, including the Palestinians. In his work on The Prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel noted that the ancient Hebrew prophet "is an iconoclast, chal- lenging the apparently holy, revered,...
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...We would do well to attend to those contemporary Jewish voices of dissent, such as Ellis's, that are prophetic, both in their "annoying" and "irritating" (Fein's words) style and content...
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...And in that community, their hostility to Israel (and not merely to its policies) is in fact the norm rather than an expression of icon- oclasm, let alone "prophecy...
...But in the end we are not part of the assertion--any more than I can be read as same community or tradition of dissent...
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...those who choose to read Ellis's book will decide for themselves which of us has understood his arguments and their implications more accurately...
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...alleged iconoclasm or on his effort to posi- Ellis recklessly asserts that my review tion himself in the tradition of Jewish dis- contains an implicit charge of "Christian sent...
...I am against certain important because I have read him out of the com- Israeli policies...
...Beliefs cherished as certainties, institutions endowed with supreme sanc- tity, he exposes as scandalous pretensions...
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...But I cannot derive from Ellis's explicit insistence that the Jews are a "naturally homeless people" and that the Jewish state must "be transformed into something else" a call for the acceptance of "ordinary" responsibility...
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...MARK CHMIEL The reviewer replies: Rosemary Ruether has read her wishes into Marc Ellis's words...
...It seems to me instead quite extraordinary to propose that the Jewish state cease to be a Jewish state, which is plainly what Ellis wants, his tone of injured innocence and his obfuscatory language notwithstanding...
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...He wants people such as Noam Chomsky and Marc Ellis, whose voice he finds "prophetic," not merely to have their say but to be included in the community of discourse on these matters...
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