A Traumatized but Reborn Israel Faces Terrifying Choices
What happens on the battlefield in the coming weeks and perhaps months will help determine the next iteration of Israel.
What happens on the battlefield in the coming weeks and perhaps months will help determine the next iteration of Israel.
I moved to Jerusalem in 1982 and have now lived in Israel longer than I’ve lived outside it.
To be an Israeli at the time of the state\’s 60th anniversary means to be resigned to living with insoluble emotional and political paradoxes. It means living with a growing fear of mortality, even as we celebrate our ability to outlive every threat. We are almost certainly the only nation that marks its Independence Day with an annual poll that invariably includes the question: \”Do you believe the country will still exist 50 years from now?\”
It\’s hard to remember now, but we began this war with the sympathy of a large part of the international community. Some Arab leaders, for the first time in the history of the Middle East conflict, actually blamed other Arabs for initiating hostilities with Israel.
At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden
by Yossi Klein Halevi
William Morrow