no one else cared about. i believe that israel has to do more to try to live out its own principles and move closer towards -- britain has an anglican queen and a cross on its flag and yet it still does a petty good job of providingç equality. i think israel could go much further towards meeting the needs of its own arab citizens and eventually and hopefully ending the occupation of the west bank. >> the question of why, the role that the u.s. and the jewish community in the u.s., i think the most controversial parts of the book, the parts that seem to strike a nerve are about the dynamic between the sort of institutional structure of american jewry and israel and the occupation and the sort of way those three things are bound together. you make this really fascinating point, i want you to elaborate on. which is at a certain point there's a period of time in american life in which jews were pushed out of main stream establishment institutions and things like the american jewish congress were essentially these sort of parallel shadow