MB Civic

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806F.shtml

In the West, all of Israel’s sincere friends are right to be very worried today. Since Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination by a Jewish extremist on November 4, 1995, the Hebrew state suffers from a serious leadership deficit. At the top, there is no longer the least vision, the least long-term strategy, the least policy capable of going beyond electioneering requirements. As the geo-politician Dominique Moisi says, Israel is a country where the people appear to have become rather better than its political-military elites…

I think Chomsky said it correct that it’s never a good idea for any country to be defined by a religeous identity – in Israel’s case it’s very formation. There’s nothing more polarizing than religeon – just look at our own culture wars.
– MAB