@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Neither the Palestine nor the Israel team ever qualified for the World Cup.
In my opinion, any hubris (aka, arrogant pride) about Jewish achievements is accomplished by American Jews and their competing quite well alongside upper-class WASP's and other high achieving groups (i.e., Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Asian-Americans). Israel, in my opinion, and likely the opinion of many other American Jews, is just a health insurance policy (aka, safe haven) of sorts, just incase another anti-Semitic demigod comes to power somewhere else in the world, and the U.S./UK closes its doors.
So, most American Jews, in my opinion, are quite part of the American fabric, and are baseball fans, American football fans, and their interest in Israel is negligible. I am not talking about the Orthodox; they are a minority when one parses the American Jewish population.
Since Jews came here when the American West was still the wild west, would you care to guess why so many western sheriff/marshall badges are shaped like the Star of David? I think it had something to do with the beliefs of the early western settlers. The bible was a big part of their lives. Both testaments. My point being is that early America was not a knock-off of Europe, and today there are people that still believe that America is a unique nation. Naturally, there are newer citizens that would like the U.S. to become a satellite of Europe in culture, and thinking. I am not so sure that will happen.
