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Up From Zionism!
In 1959, William F. Buckley Jr. published Up From Liberalism, a piercing dissection of an American elite that had become intoxicated with its own virtue. He described a liberal class that preached freedom while practicing coercion, a group that prioritized engineered social progress over eternal truths, and who believed that…
Totalitarian Israeli Democracy in the Age of Reason
Imagine transporting two thinkers from the past to the corridors of the Israeli Knesset. One is Frédéric Bastiat, a 19th-century French economist, whose treatise, The Law, reads like a contemporary critique of the proceedings. The other is J.L. Talmon, an Israeli historian from the 1960's, whose life's work charted the…
The Tyranny of Tolerance: How an Enlightenment Error Is Tearing Israel Apart
A recent, thoughtful critique of the idea of a "Jewish Compassion Deficit Syndrome" raised a crucial point about the pragmatic necessity of distinguishing friend from foe. Why, the commenter asked, should we hold an Arab village that supports Zionism to a different standard than our political allies? Why demand a…
Zionist Autoimmune Disorder: A Nation at War With its Own Survival
In the summer of 1969, with the echoes of the Six-Day War still reverberating and the grinding War of Attrition underway, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir stood before a press conference in London and uttered a phrase that would echo for half a century. "We can forgive the Arabs for…
Orwell’s Ghost in Jerusalem: The Willful Blindness of a Nation at War
In the grim spring of 1942, with the world tearing itself apart, George Orwell made a chilling observation in his diary. He was reacting to a piece of what he called “stupid” Fascist Italian propaganda which claimed that life in England was so dire the country was on the verge…
The Paradox of the Jewish State: Machiavelli’s Shadow and Zionism’s Secular Betrayal
In the heart of the Middle East, where ancient prophecies trump modern geopolitics, the State of Israel stands as a beacon of contradiction. Founded in 1948 amid the ashes of the Holocaust and the fervor of nationalist dreams, Israel proclaims itself a Jewish and democratic state—a fusion of religious heritage…
The Unspoken Wounds: Confronting a Painful Past and the Path to Healing within Israel
The story of Israel’s founding is often told as a triumphant return, a beacon of hope after centuries of diaspora and persecution. But for some within Israeli society, the history is shadowed by a different kind of pain – a deep-seated wound stemming from the early days of the state.…