Kreitzmoorland
01-04-2006, 08:48
I think Israel as a state is losing myth and gaining normality. Examples:
1) People have stopped being ideological about socialism, communism, imperialism, militarism, etc. They now care more about money and economy and pragmatism.
2) Israel, as of this election, has stopped electing war heroes, visionaries, and generals as leaders. The candidates in this one were a lawyer, a union boss, a beurocrat, etc.
3) The general view of Jews and Israel has chaged from the post-Holocaust wave of glorification and sympathy to a highly complex, highly diverse, and (though this is not really normal) highly obsessive range of opinion.
These examples, though they may be remarked as a sort of end, or down-coming from the heroic and uniquely dramatic creation and ascent of Israel as a nation, I think marks an important maturation, and will lead ulimately to a greater stability.
1) People have stopped being ideological about socialism, communism, imperialism, militarism, etc. They now care more about money and economy and pragmatism.
2) Israel, as of this election, has stopped electing war heroes, visionaries, and generals as leaders. The candidates in this one were a lawyer, a union boss, a beurocrat, etc.
3) The general view of Jews and Israel has chaged from the post-Holocaust wave of glorification and sympathy to a highly complex, highly diverse, and (though this is not really normal) highly obsessive range of opinion.
These examples, though they may be remarked as a sort of end, or down-coming from the heroic and uniquely dramatic creation and ascent of Israel as a nation, I think marks an important maturation, and will lead ulimately to a greater stability.