Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[satorino]

Zeev,

You have asked a fateful question, one I have struggled with for many years. I believe the reason Arafat went into Intifada 2 so confidently and the acts of terror have been so terrible was because the Arabs felt the Jews were tired, they were starting to ask questions.
The growth of Israel, the well being of the technology boom, the possibility of having a standard of living california style, has started to put a strange question in the minds of Israelis, is it worthed to stay put? Is it worthed to send children to school on a bus with the dread of them blowing up?
A situation which in a sense resembles South Africa in the sense that those who can have a better future elsewhere are starting to plan leaving, and those who stay cannot really form a backbone for the state.
I was talking to an Israeli friend of mine lately, she is a bright scientist, and she told me " I dont know if the state can hold its stand".
The arabs feel that and their appetite is being wetted.
Can the Arabs win a war? well may be not a fought one for now, but there are other processes which work underneath and are perhaps more troublesome.
"What will happen to the State then" you ask. I don't have the guts to talk about my fears, because as a Jew, a world after the disappearance, God forbid, of Medinat Israel would be a national catastrophe, but for the first time since I am a conscoius person, that is a possibility that disturbs my thought.
It should by the way disturb the thoughts of a lot of other people, because a world without Israel would be one where the truth and the lies would be so much harder to separate.
satorino