Israel's national "disputatiousness" is irritating, but survival mechanism
(NEWSER) - American Jews are “taught to go all gooey-eyed at the thought of Israel,” writes David Brooks in the New York Times, but this isn’t the appropriate reaction. It’s not so much a sentimental place as it is “exhausting, admirable, annoying, impressive, and foreign.” After decades of struggle, everyone shares the same trauma, and there’s little public-private boundary. Everyone gets into everyone else's business, loudly. It's a country “held together by argument.” More»
