The connection is weak. Ed Rothstein, a first rate American intellectual mind, has reviewed Philip Bobbitt's Terror and Consent about the current wars of non-state terror groups against nations.
I will read Bobbitt's book after I finish the two current books on my
Sony Reader that relate to the same subject and which you will soon see
reviewed.
Then there is the article
that is widely discussed by nearly everyone in Israel (be prepared, it
is very long) and has been translated into English. It is A.B.
Yehoshua's, seminal work on anti-Semitism. Yehoshua is probably the
world's greatest living thinker.
Yehoshua finds the 2000 year hatred of the Jews among people with no consistent characteristics, against Jews with no consistent characteristics to lie in the fear of the mysterious force that holds the diverse population of Jews together: nationhood.
Nationhood arises in a people without a land, without a common spoken language or ethnicity. Nationhood arises from a lifetime focus by Jews on a common set of laws (the Torah).
Very interesting connection because today, Israel (the people in love with the world of laws) is locked in a firm embrace with America (the country that defines itself by its love of a Constitution), and both are hated, in the new terror war, by tribal people who abhor the idea of a nation based on laws.