Caroline Glick Israel Israel Self Reliance Israeli culture Israeli history

CAROLINE GLICK: ISRAEL NO LONGER IN THROES OF ADOLESCENT REBELLION, IT HAS REGAINED ITS SENSES……..

 

In other words, the Leftist nut-jobs lost out.

Column One: Post-Zionism is so 1990s

By CAROLINE B. GLICK

04/27/2012 05:45

The open door policy for Israeli radicals was defensible in the 1990s when a significant portion of the Israeli public supported them

Man waves Israeli flag in JerusalemPhoto: Marc Israel Sellem

You can learn a lot about a nation’s health by watching how it celebrates its national holidays. In Israel’s case, compare how we celebrated our 50th Independence Day in 1998 to what celebrations involve today.

During the 1990s, Israel’s elite took a vacation from reality and history and they brought much of the public with them.

Then-foreign minister Shimon Peres said that history was overrated. The so-called “New Historians,” who rummaged through David Ben-Gurion’s closet looking for skeletons, were the toast of the academic world. Radicals like Yossi Beilin, Shulamit Aloni and Avrum Burg were dictating government policy.

The media, the entertainment establishment, and the Education Ministry embraced and massively promoted plays, movies, television shows, songs, dances, art and books that “slayed sacred cows.” Everywhere you turned, post-Zionism was in. Post-Judaism was in. And Zionism and Judaism were both decidedly out.

As he is today, in 1998 Binyamin Netanyahu was prime minister, and then as now there were prominent voices seeking to blame him for the absence of peace and every other terrible blight on the planet.

In 1998, the government invested a fortune in marking Israel’s 50th Independence Day.

The main official celebration was a massive affair called Jubilee Bells that took place at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. More than 2,000 performers participated. But rather than serve as an event that unified Israeli society in celebration of 50 years of sovereign freedom, the event exposed just how far Israel’s political and cultural elite were willing to go in attacking basic societal values.

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