HELLO DEAR CHAIM,
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY. I HAVE WHAT MAKE SEEM LIKE A STRANGE QUESTION, BUT HERE GOES.
THROUGH THE INTERNET, I reconnected with a close childhood friend that I went to school with in Brooklyn - a yeshiva elementary school and the Yeshiva of Flatbush. Her parents were Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Israel and she was born in Israel and came here as a baby. In Yeshiva, we learned the love of Israel, probably more than anything else. While I am not observant, I have always been extremely pro Israel and of course pro America. Through the years, I have had probably more liberal friends and family. Anyway, after 25 years we touched base and she told me she is married with triplets (as a result of Israel socialist medicine, as she relayed). Her husband is Benny Dagan, an important writer and diplomat who apparently has been involved with the gov't for many years as a career diplomat of sorts.
Just as we reconnected, Benny and my friend, Irit were scheduled to be transfered to Stockholm, Sweden where he is the Israeli diplomat and Irit was given a job as a cultural attache. My question is - what do people in the Foreign Service do, have you specifically heard about Mr. Dagan?
By the way, I was horrified when Irit told me that the Six Day War was a "tragedy for the Jewish people," when I told her I was pro Israel and was worried about Israel. I did not reveal my pro Kahanist approach to Israel. What happened to her? I recently emailed her about the demonstration and crime in Sweden (of all places) and she seems to take in all in stride and seems strong but somewhat oblivious to the anti semitism around her.
Chaim, has our world become so overly feminized that no longer believe in fighting for our country and standing up for Western culture and our Judeo-Christian heritage. Why have we become cowards - and most men are not speaking up.
thank you,
Moodsformoderns