Posted on 01/14/2023 8:20:29 AM PST by Eleutheria5
“For years now, Israel has seemed to me like a man sleepwalking toward a cliff. Now we’ve fallen from it.”
So proclaimed author Hillel Halkin in a hysterical requiem for Israel published last week in TheJewish Review of Books.
Halkin’s metaphorical cliff is the right-religious bloc’s electoral victory on Nov. 1, 2022 and the formation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sixth government two weeks ago. Halkin explained to his concerned readers that it isn’t that Israel stopped being a democracy on Nov. 1. Far worse. On that day, Israel lost its soul.
And Halkin identifies the culprit: Judaism.
In language redolent with antisemitic tropes, Halkin blamed “Judaism” for destroying “Zionism,” which he argued, oddly, “sought to cure us” of Judaism’s “fantasies and delusions … only to become infected with them itself.”
“Zionism wanted to make us a normal people,” he wrote. Alas, “It failed and grew warped in the process.”
American Jewish readers may have been shocked that the long-time Israeli darling of the neoconservative clique is now a hate-mongering leftist. But for Israeli readers, there was nothing original about Halkin’s essay. Since Nov. 1, the leftist-dominated Hebrew media has been consumed by the left’s collective nervous breakdown. Far more extreme messages than Halkin’s are shoved down the public’s throats 24-7.
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To me, it seems more like they found it.
When leftists lose they always rant about the death of democracy, even if they have lost through the democratic process. Their playbook just repeats the same tired old rhetoric. It’s like they were all graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism. When will they come up with something new?
Oh the humanity! Once again Judaism has destroyed democracy! We just know people meant to vote for our side but were duped by misinformation!
Is it just me or do “politics” in Israel look a lot like the dysfunction we have here in the US?
They seem hysterical too.
They will never change, like an addict. Or a pedo. Rehabilitation not possible.
But, that is OK since their goal is to keep the NPC’s and slave-loving Democrats “voting” for their policies.
[snip] In language redolent with antisemitic tropes, Halkin blamed "Judaism" for destroying "Zionism," ...the long-time Israeli darling of the neoconservative clique is now a hate-mongering leftist. But for Israeli readers, there was nothing original about Halkin's essay. Since Nov. 1, the leftist-dominated Hebrew media has been consumed by the left's collective nervous breakdown. Far more extreme messages than Halkin's are shoved down the public's throats 24-7. [/snip]
Exactly. Remember when Communist dictatorships were called "people's republics"? Now it's "democracy," meaning fascism, while conservatives, who believe in republics, are called "fascists." How they say all this with a straight face is beyond me; it is a talent I could never have.
Sounds just like here in leftist’s self loathing Amerika@
Some striking parallels with he system here. W have a much longer developmental history of concentration of power in the Bureaucracy and the left has got control of the election process here but the Left in Israel has not yet attained that.
Democracy in Israel would be to allow the paleosimians to murder every last jew and raze any structure constructed after the 7th century
israel was becommming Ill-inois or Californication or New Jerksey
now with its election, it has a chance to recover somewhat
though, I must observe that Bibi is a whole lot more (excellent quality) talk than action
he was Prime Minister for many years and just watched (and enabled!) the continued (and expanding) Fakestinian Occupation of the Jewish Promised land
creating a terrible housing shortage, crisis all the while
but, we will see. at least the international communists and nazis are worried ——— this is always a good sign!
<< American Jewish readers may have been shocked that the long-time Israeli darling of the neoconservative clique is now a hate-mongering leftist. >>
Not surprised at all. We have plenty of high profile neos turned full-fledged leftists over here due to TDS.
i wonder what moshe dayan would think of present day Israel.
when are the israelis going to rise up, and sweep, “the philistenes” back into the ocean?
evdr since before 1970, “the philistines” have breen noghing but the whitehead pimple on the boil on the butt of Israrl.
He’s a schmuck, this Halkin. And more than a little meshugge.
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The Israeli communists are bitter...
The modern state of Israel came into being and is sustained, despite being surrounded by hostile nations, BY ITS JUDAISM. Not by any secular governmental construct. This guy Halkin obviously received little to no Jewish education and has substituted his precious communism for Judaism. There is no comparison. He is grasping a mortal sham concept to his breast, letting that conceived by G-d Himself flutter to the ground. So sad and so pathetic.
sPELCHUNK GOT THE TITLE WRONG
Theocracy
Jeremiah 4:1-2
“If you will return, O Israel,” declares the Lord,
“Then you should return to Me.
And if you will put away your detested things from My presence,
And will not waver,
And you will swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’
In truth, in justice and in righteousness;
Then the nations will bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they will glory.
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