Ernest Partridge said ”The alleged need of a well-functioning person to care for the future beyond his own lifetime rests upon a more basic need that I will call "self transcendence." He asserts “ that we have sound personal and social, as well as moral, reasons to care about our impact upon the living conditions of both our contemporaries and of successor generations”.
If Patridge is right then John Donne spoke for all mankind when he wrote: "No man is an island, entire of itself." Thus we cannot regard our decisions and the values that we hold to be restricted to and isolated within our lifetimes.
In that context why do Americans- Jews and non-Jews care about Israel so much while others perceive Israel as an isolated problem so remotely located in the middle East.
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