We Lived Through A Relatively Golden Age

Words Create Conceptions And Self-conceptions And Ultimately Nations. They Can Start And Stop Wars. They Can Would And Heal. Choosing Words Carefully Is A Moral Responsibility.

The Dreams And The Visions Of The Israeli Founding Fathers, These Were Very Very Ambitious Dreams. They Were World Reformers. They Wanted To Create A New And Improved Kind Of Humanity, Or At Least, A New And Improved Jewish Society, A New And Improved Jewish Individual Human Being Here. The Whole Zionist Project Was Based On A Whole Spectrum Of Different And Even Conflicting Dreams And Visions.

The [political] Left Are People With An Imagination And The Right Are Those Without An Imagination.

But For 30 Years, Orthodox Leaders Have Tipped The Balance Between Hawks And Doves, And Have Been In A Position To Determine Who Forms A Coalition And Who Runs The Country.

We Got A Wonderful Present From Stalin And Hitler That They Never Meant To Give Us. We Were Immune For 60 Years Or So To Aggression, Racism And Militarism. They Made Us Partly Immune To These Things. Now It Appears This Stalin-hitler Present Has Reached Its Expiration Date. We Were Spoiled By This. So Maybe We Are Just Emerging Out Of A Relatively Golden Age.