”If Israel were destroyed, I hope it would be the end of the Jewish people.”

In his newest book, A Complicated Jew: Selected Essays, the prolific, brilliant, creative and provocative essayist, Hillel Halkin, writes as follows:

A few years ago, I participated in a panel discussion about Israel and the Diaspora held in Washington, D.C. As I generally do on such occasions, I spoke my mind. When the time came for questions from the a…