Why Israel is a good country in a bad neighbourhood
HARVEY MEIROVICH Globe and Mail April 28, 2009 at 12:00 AM EDT
Mature love is to love in the face of imperfection. After years of living together, facing ups and downs, partners will invariably gaze at one another and realize that, notwithstanding the blemishes each sees in the other, so much of the original "chemistry" remains between them, making it worthwhile to continue their adventure.Twenty years of living in Israel has transformed me into this kind of mature lover. In Israel's Declaration of Independence, the founding fathers of the Jewish state acquiesced wholeheartedly to the elevated ethical bar set by the Hebrew prophets: God demands higher, not lower, standards of goodness from Israel; the higher the privilege, the graver the responsibility. Sixty-one years after its establishment, Israeli society wrestles continuously with these Herculean expectations. MORE....
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