A Time for Reassessment
There is no kinder, gentler United States waiting for Israel around the corner. Not even if Marco Rubio becomes president. Because our interests conflict.
Yishai Edberg studied political science at Tulane University before coming home on aliya. He studied government at Reichman University in Herzliya, studies Torah at Machon Meir in Jerusalem, and writes on topics of Jewish identity, political economy, and geopolitics.
There is no kinder, gentler United States waiting for Israel around the corner. Not even if Marco Rubio becomes president. Because our interests conflict.
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Karl Popper’s divorce of history from rhythm, direction, or inherent meaning naturally identified Israel’s Torah as its primary ideological foe.
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Israel must seize whatever opportunities a new Trump administration offers us with the knowledge that our reliance on US permission to advance our interests is already a source of profound shame.
To definitively defeat the ideology of Hamas, we must completely disprove the basic assumptions about Israel that drive their goals & tactics.
While trying to blame Jews for subversive behavior, ‘Goyslop’ is actually a projection of Western civilization’s most self-destructive excesses.