Aboriginal Rights of the Jewish People

„The Jewish people have forged a successful state in their historic homeland,“ said U.S. President Barack Obama in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on September 21, 2011.  This theme of „people“ and „historic homeland“ has for centuries resonated with most Jews round the world.  However, the president’s words were even more welcome, because our own time witnesses an increasingly bitter controversy over the Jewish people’s right to political self-determination in a part of its aboriginal homeland.“ (…)