Mr. Pumps
06-13-2002, 03:26 PM
http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/20
Israel, judging by its indefatigably foolish actions and inactions, is determined to die. Ironically, the Arabs won't oblige this determination all at once. Instead, they will "allow" Israel to disappear slowly; first, by Oslo-mandated territorial dismemberment and war. Then, and only then, by forcible absorption into "Palestine." Such absorption - some will prefer to call it an "incorporation" (after all, that would have a nice juridical ring), will be accompanied by massive Jewish emigrations and quasi-medieval expulsions. The Final Solution to Middle East "peace" - if present trends remain constant - will be the End of Israel and near-total Jewish rediasporization.
Despair, we learn from Kierkegaard, "is the sickness unto death," and it is now Israel's likely fate - following eight years of a "Peace Process" - to despair for a long, long while, even to a point where it might prefer to die. Indeed, the torment of Israel's despair will be precisely this; that it will not be able to die, not until its enemies decide that they are ready for the moribund Jewish State, humiliated and stripped of all grace, to exit the earth. To be sick in this fashion, to be sick unto death and not to be able to die, will be, for Israel, the cruelest blow of all.
The despairing state, like the despairing individual, cannot die. For Israel, the agonizing hopelessness - in this case, even the last hope of death will be unavailable - will entail "dying the death," actually living to experience death. This fate is so much worse than simply being allowed to die; quickly, completely, blessedly. But to die and yet not to die, to actually die the death, is for Israel, unquestionably, a fate far worse than death.
01/july/ber1.htm
Israel, judging by its indefatigably foolish actions and inactions, is determined to die. Ironically, the Arabs won't oblige this determination all at once. Instead, they will "allow" Israel to disappear slowly; first, by Oslo-mandated territorial dismemberment and war. Then, and only then, by forcible absorption into "Palestine." Such absorption - some will prefer to call it an "incorporation" (after all, that would have a nice juridical ring), will be accompanied by massive Jewish emigrations and quasi-medieval expulsions. The Final Solution to Middle East "peace" - if present trends remain constant - will be the End of Israel and near-total Jewish rediasporization.
Despair, we learn from Kierkegaard, "is the sickness unto death," and it is now Israel's likely fate - following eight years of a "Peace Process" - to despair for a long, long while, even to a point where it might prefer to die. Indeed, the torment of Israel's despair will be precisely this; that it will not be able to die, not until its enemies decide that they are ready for the moribund Jewish State, humiliated and stripped of all grace, to exit the earth. To be sick in this fashion, to be sick unto death and not to be able to die, will be, for Israel, the cruelest blow of all.
The despairing state, like the despairing individual, cannot die. For Israel, the agonizing hopelessness - in this case, even the last hope of death will be unavailable - will entail "dying the death," actually living to experience death. This fate is so much worse than simply being allowed to die; quickly, completely, blessedly. But to die and yet not to die, to actually die the death, is for Israel, unquestionably, a fate far worse than death.
01/july/ber1.htm