The Zionism
aimed to establish a Jewish state. The miracle happened and in 1948 the State
of Israel became a reality, with the vast majority of its inhabitants being
Jews.
Many Jews across
the globe see Israel as their country and have invested many efforts to produce
here a strong and viable state.
Israel has grown
to become a country with an impressive and stable economic base and a strong
army, but something went wrong along the way.
The state of
Israel as of 2012 is running on a deep slope towards extinction. Not many are
willing to admit it. Many are still living among us who cling with all their
soul to the beautiful dream of a state for the Jews.
Since I could
not find another place to open a discussion about the failure of Zionism, I
opened a new blog. It was originally published
in Hebrew and now a make a modest attempt to translate the posts one-by-one to English.
I apologize for the mistakes in advance.
I have a long career
as computer professional. In my leisure time (which is quite limited) I
investigate the Israeli society.
I read
everything I could put my hand on about the developments and processes in the Israeli society (too little in-depth
material was published on this subject). I tried to understand why the Israeli
Jewish society go increasingly extreme and why is it falling apart and disintegrates. The main
question that bothered me is whether the attempt to create a Jewish state
predestined to failure? Are the Jews unable to manage their own state?
Many of those
living here have experienced the unimaginable dream of statehood. Even my generation, born in the early years of
the country experienced the euphoria of having independent state and the absolute
identification with its institutions.
People that
refuse to wake up from this dream, may see the title as Provocative, but this
article was rather born out of long study and research in order to halt the
erosion process. It was born out of a desire to really understand what makes
the Jewish society in Israel behave as it does. What made this society turn
away from secularism and the values of humanism and liberalism and into a "Jewish"
– nationalist agenda that takes it down into the unknown.
I will present
my insights in the coming posts and I'd sure like to get serious comments.
Right now,
I'll just quote from Albert Einstein who published already in 1938 as part of
the speech "Our Dept to Zionism" and published again in 1950:
"I
should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of
living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. Apart from
practical consideration, my awareness of the essential nature of Judaism
resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of
temporal power no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism
will sustain--especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our
own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a
Jewish state."
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