“Nations Rise and Fall, but Israel Lives.”

I have a friend who is a Jew’s Jew.

He was raised a proud Zionist, 23andMe reports his DNA is 98% Ashkenazi, and much of his family lives in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank. His great-grandparents were early Zionists working alongside Theodor Herzl himself. They moved to Palestine in the late 1800s, 60 years before it was renamed Israel. They a…