The Zionist revolution has always rested on two pillars: a just path and an ethical leadership.
Wrong. Judaism has these as pillars. The Zionist "revolution" (not a complete misuse of the word: there was no revolution; there was a movement; the man can't think) was about creation of a home for the Jewish people. Once created, of course, that homeland was desired to be just, fair, etc. Just as our own Founding Fathers, just as any society being reborn, they were concerned about the nature of the society being reborn in Palestine and then Israel. But that was NOT the "pillar."
Diaspora Jews for whom Israel is a central pillar of their identity must pay heed and speak out.
This moron should speak for himself. I am a Jew, and Israel is NOT a pillar of my identity. Surely, Israel is very important to me --- as a hope that my almost continually endangered people will survive. Israel is important to me because it is comprised of so many survivors of the Holocaust, in which a large part of my own family has perished as well. But Israel is not a "pillar of my identity."
We are traded on the NASDAQ. But is this why we created a state? The Jewish people did not survive for two millennia in order to pioneer new weaponry, computer security programs or antimissile missiles.
Certainly not. And Israel would not be doing such things had it not been attacked at least once every decade of its existence --- with the purpose not to annex SOME territory but complete and final annihilation of the nation. This purpose is still in the charter of the PLO. Is the author unaware of that? Is there any other nation on earth that does not do the same in similar circumstances? Have we not invested trillions of dollars into our own defense when faced with the danger from the Soviet Union? Not that we have not been attacked: there was only a threat thereof. Israel has been attacked --- on the second day of its existence and repeatedly afterwards. And the author expects him NOT to invest in weapons?
Furthermore, why bring up NASDAQ as a measure of success? Anti-Semites usually do that --- Jews and money, you know. Is the author unaware of the HIGE numbers of persons of Jewish faith and/or upbringing among in the sciences, literature and arts, including so many Nobel Prize winners? Author's retention of information is very selective and prejudicial, wouldn't you say? Incidentally, when speaking of NASDAQ, he should not be using the word "we." This is because (i) the companies created by entrepreneurs are traded on NASDAQ; he has not created anything but trouble, and (ii) if the is successful in rebuilding the Israeli, and world, society, there will be no NASDAQ. Right here you have an explanation for his unduly strong focus on NASDAQ: as a leftist, he hates it as a symbol of productive capitalism. He would rather replace it with a redistributive socialism. We were supposed to be a light unto the nations.
Oh my, I never thought I would hear HIM say that. That is the purely religious, Judaic concept. Ask this Leftists scum when he last set his foot into the synagogue. I mean it, go ahead, write to him, and ask. This anti-religious bigot appeals to religious notions when it suits him. Pure hypocrisy. And you find that he "makes sense?" The Israeli opposition does not exist This is a joke. With the number of parties and coalitions comparable only to Italy, which had 50 governments in 50 years, Israel does not have an opposition?
What he means is that Leftist extremisms is under-represented. American communists and Barbara Lee supporters complain about the same thing: they want to see the red banners on every street an America, and we fail them. We live in a thunderously failed reality.
I wonder whether he has a high school diploma. Failed reality? Perhaps someone should inform the author that reality is what it is --- it's the plans that may fail.
I am willing to respect an opinion that differs from mine if its bearer has arrived at it in an intellectually honest way. As you can see, neither intellectual honesty nor intelligence have not even visited the author of the article. I am really, really sorry that you found sense in his vitriol. Perhaps you should really ask yourself how it could've happened and whether your own opinions have been formed trough an intellectually honest process.
Your own post says more about you than I ever could.