Monday, October 5, 2009

"Israel in 2024: Only Tel Aviv remains..."


'Urban outfits in the "new Israel"'
Huffington Post/ here
".... De Winter is no glib pundit. A staunch friend and defender of Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her fight for the rights of Muslim immigrant women, he comes from a family of Orthodox Jews ...... a life long "admirer of the Zionist project" whose novels, such as "Zionoco" and "God's Gym" (published by Toby Press in the US), are about the search for Jewish identity. Yet, he can't shake the historical anxieties that make his nights sleepless. .....
....... an Israel that is basically the area of larger Tel Aviv, with the northern part of the Negev, including Dimona. The North is gone, the South is gone, Jerusalem is gone. The country fell apart because of external pressure - continuous rocket bombardments - that caused families to leave, and because of internal erosion: the Israeli Arabs and the ultra-Orthodox Jews moved away from the secular Jewish heart of the nation. Those with a criminal record, those who are old, and another group fascinated to be part of an apocalypse, and those who just want to stay and defend the country no matter what happens, were left behind...."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That guy in the back looks like he strayed off the LL Bean catalogue and got involved with the wrong crowd.

Go back to Connecticut, dude!!