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The development of electronic communications has produced new networks of felt affinities, which challenge the older and more predictable affinities based on textual criteria which can be used on a rote basis to determine who belongs with whom.
This state of felt affinity is only intermittent, so everyone gets tormenting glimpses of it and then falls back into their rote identifications. this produces a sort of panic.
Verbal reassurances of loyalty are useless. one gravitates to those one has the deepest and strongest affinities with, and casting around for explanations in terms of religious membership or genetic heritage is not only useless but harmful.
In this sense, the elderly among us who conceive themselves as guardians against infiltrators and insist on applying loyalty tests are causing serious difficulties, of which the religious zionists are the most problematic, given their power and influence, which is vast.
