Playwright and film director David Mamet (b. 1947) writing in The Wall Street Journal:
We Jews have been the world’s foster children—homeless for 2,000 years, and thus powerless but to accept whatever measure of protection (real, imaginary or probational) the fostering country offers. In some we were slaves, in some tolerated as second-class. In no country were we accepted as full citizens, without that hyphen that is always an asterisk.
Mr. Mamet’s OpEd, which I found hard to follow, underscores the importance of the State of Israel to Jews everywhere.