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"...We have to realize that legitimization is in our own hands."

Which brings up an interesting point; a "trend" and "slant" I have noticed that is almost inperceptibly cropping up in much of the commentary coming in from overseas Jewish sources. I think it really struck me when one writer in an article recently posted (can't remember which one -- too many) coined the term "Post-Zionism" as a cultural awareness/awakening happening in the Jewish community in Israel.

The first time someone refered to me as a "Zionist Christian," I was a little taken aback. Flattered by the sentiment, indeed, but I always understood Zionism to be an exclusively Jewish movement/institution and the main era pre-1948. Israel is established, vibrant, still very much alive and productive as an independant nation.

So, where does the Jewish nation go from here? Continually vascillating and on the defensive, tolerating the whims of men more concerned with their "legacies" and standing in the eyes of a sullen and hostile world, constantly selling out national security and interests for ... what? Money? The American foreign aid that the Administrations constantly threaten to "review" and pull?

That's just plain prostitution. Jewish culture, especially in Israel, is better than that.