Binyamin netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, may suffer many shortcomings, but a deficit of chutzpah is not one of them. Two weeks ago, for example, he told French-speaking supporters of his Likud party that he saw himself as the "representative of the entire Jewish people". After an anti-semitic attack killed a Jew in Copenhagen, he urged his coreligionists to leave "the soil of Europe" and to go to their real home: Israel. Many Jews are irked by being told they must respond to terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen by fleeing to Israel. Yet in some ways such appeals are not new. Nor are complex and sometimes contradictory emotions felt by Jews in Israel, a state that was founded to offer them a haven; and by the 8m or so Jews who live outside it.
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