A long exchange with Amos Schocken on Twitter. The connection of German Jews, especially the patrician, to the homeland is still very strong, and very unexamined. [Jason Stanley, and others]

@HoldenDCat @PeterBeinart @JeffreyGoldberg @haaretzcom existence and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

— Amos Schocken (@AmosSchocken1) July 15, 2015

I said he needed to pick one or the other. A back and forth until this:

@JoaquinTamiroff @PeterBeinart @HoldenDCat @JeffreyGoldberg If two states is not practical, then I prefer one state to the present situation

— Amos Schocken (@AmosSchocken1) July 15, 2015

"The west Germans have done an outstanding job in taking responsibility/ for the Holocaust and in educating the young accordingly."

I told him he looked like Richter. He took it as a compliment, missing the irony. He's a decent man.