Sentences with phrase «sheer survival demonstrates»

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Ruth Wisse's Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»