ABSTRACT
What really counts is the fact that… Greeks and Jews developed through the ages certain basic similarities and displayed concepts of thought and action and modes of national development that run parallel through their respective histories… Yet with all that said, I think it would be historically inaccurate, intellectually dishonest, and, from the point of view of our present and future goals, utterly counterproductive if we should merely insist on emphasizing our similarities… One must not, even for the sake of fostering goodwill and co-operation, gloss over the explosive forces of conflict which repeatedly sent Jews and Greeks on a collision course… History is replete with successive clashes between the national and religious aspirations of Jewry and of the [Greeks], and these clashes were all-too-serious and all-too-frequent to be explained away as mere episodes.
