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Foreword (March 4, 2021)
It has already been 10 years since the terrorist assault on the Samarian Jewish settlement of Itamar in which a young family was caught unawares in their sleep and cut down in their prime by deviant Arab rivals. I am republishing part of this article in honor of the Jewish victims. On January 6, 2021, the day of, and incidentally, during the U.S. Capitol riots, (my TV and social media were turned off), I wrote some current thoughts of mine on the conflict between the Jewish so-called ‘settlers’ and the Sunni-majority Muslim Palestinians, as an afterword to the piece which was originally entitled, ‘Against All Odds’. Once, in defense of the policies of the Jewish state, (in maintaining its Jewish-majority for voting purposes), I questioned modern Democracy, seeing it as a trick of the devil, an artificial ideology of greedy, jealous and barbaric Enlightenment revolutionaries. Now, after living abroad in the United States for just shy of a decade, I
כסף (ממון) וכלים בתל אביב
It went like this. I tried the pseudointellectual approach to Zionism. I was exploring. Ultimately, I was none the happier. Both institutions, I found, are not built on the witty ponderings of the outsider or individualist, but upon the reckonings and sociological movement of the family. The Israel of today is not a Socialist Utopia like the visions of Labor Zionism in the works of Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl (1860-1904) and before him, Moses (Moshe) Hess (1812-1875). That is to say, the Herzlian ideals promised to the Jewish immigrant to Palestine, roughly a century and a half ago, seem to have gotten lost amidst years of inevitable changes, all of which, alas, futile.