How Israel Lost
The Four Questions
Chapter One
Why do we care
about Israel?
Why do we care about Israel? An eyelash of land
around the eastern Mediterranean shore, in some
spots the nation isn't ten miles wide. North to
south, you can drive it in half a day - if you
don't get stuck behind some Polish geriatric
squinting through the steering wheel of his
first automobile, putting to a new test (at
thirty-two miles per hour) his life's talent,
which is survival. In fact, our care must be
more for that turtle-ish Jewish survivor than
for the land he drives. Even if the world called
the question tomorrow and awarded to the Jews,
or to the Arabs, every dunam of land in
Palestine - every hill, vineyard, olive grove
and old stone house, every grain of difficult
soil that's been fought over for a hundred years
- the whole ball of wax wouldn't match in mass,
in fecundity or natural wealth, a quarter of a
province of the Congo.
No, it isn't a great rich place, nor gloriously
old as a nation-state - fifty-years-and-change
it has stood. Its ... read full excerpt from How Israel Lost: The Four Questions ebook
