Joshua, I concur with Stephen. Simply inspirational and focusing. Your highlighting the relevance of "courage" in Zionism, in Israel, and in Jews throughout the Diaspora is a rarity indeed. Jews demonstrating courage and feeling internal preparedness and strength are mission-critical to living in our very real world. Thank you for your continuing communications.
Great essay Joshua. However, you carefully dodged an important element in the rebuilding: Bibi must go. It's time for a new generation of leadership to build upon the wisdom of the past, and unify the country. We can debate the effectiveness of his war time leadership, but he represents a symbol to Israel (and the world) of a moral lapse and a strategy and callousness that transformed "start-up" nation to pariah nation.
"The actions of the state are determined by the leaders who strive to survive happily and feel threatened when their political survival is threatened. Because they worry about their survival, sometimes a contradiction arises between the concern for themselves and the stratum they came from and the survival of all citizens. The state has a survival interest in fostering in its residents a sense of mutual dependence, and therefore, it fosters the institutions of family, religion, and national sentiment. The concept of political sovereignty includes the unlimited legitimate ability of the state to impose its will on all citizens, therefore the decision-makers direct the laws, culture, social values and ideologies to suit their desire to preserve their legitimate and unlimited ability to coerce. But for the most part, they do not exercise the power of coercion because they fear the loss of national approval. For the leaders, the survival of the country is a supreme value, which will justify the use of any means. Placing the survival of the state at the top of all interests is affected and will affect the human race more than any other factor.
In order to maintain their survival, the countries established security systems whose main components are police, army, and secret agencies. The security system is the main survival energy of political systems. The security systems have a dual character, they are designed to ensure the existence of the state, but they have an interest in ensuring their own existence, which can sometimes pose a threat to the survival of the state as in the case of the Soviet Army. All war is organized human violence designed to threaten or protect a political system. Every war, internal and external, is for or against a new order. Military systems because they are closed and undemocratic hierarchical systems, the level of intelligent communication in them is low, and it is difficult to reach the truth in them, therefore in these systems there is no process of intelligent learning of lessons, but rather a process of "Darwinian learning of lessons" of natural selection."
You don’t win until the enemy officially surrenders. It’s only a cease-fire with an exchange of prisoners for hostages and some territorial gains at this point.
Joshua, I concur with Stephen. Simply inspirational and focusing. Your highlighting the relevance of "courage" in Zionism, in Israel, and in Jews throughout the Diaspora is a rarity indeed. Jews demonstrating courage and feeling internal preparedness and strength are mission-critical to living in our very real world. Thank you for your continuing communications.
A thoughtful and outstanding essay, Joshua!
Every Jew in a leadership position, be it in Israel or the Diaspora, from the prime minister to teachers and educators, must read this essay.
Great essay Joshua. However, you carefully dodged an important element in the rebuilding: Bibi must go. It's time for a new generation of leadership to build upon the wisdom of the past, and unify the country. We can debate the effectiveness of his war time leadership, but he represents a symbol to Israel (and the world) of a moral lapse and a strategy and callousness that transformed "start-up" nation to pariah nation.
He didn't dodge it. He hinted at it quite strongly...
The principle of survival by Dr. Uri Milstein
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Milstein
"The actions of the state are determined by the leaders who strive to survive happily and feel threatened when their political survival is threatened. Because they worry about their survival, sometimes a contradiction arises between the concern for themselves and the stratum they came from and the survival of all citizens. The state has a survival interest in fostering in its residents a sense of mutual dependence, and therefore, it fosters the institutions of family, religion, and national sentiment. The concept of political sovereignty includes the unlimited legitimate ability of the state to impose its will on all citizens, therefore the decision-makers direct the laws, culture, social values and ideologies to suit their desire to preserve their legitimate and unlimited ability to coerce. But for the most part, they do not exercise the power of coercion because they fear the loss of national approval. For the leaders, the survival of the country is a supreme value, which will justify the use of any means. Placing the survival of the state at the top of all interests is affected and will affect the human race more than any other factor.
In order to maintain their survival, the countries established security systems whose main components are police, army, and secret agencies. The security system is the main survival energy of political systems. The security systems have a dual character, they are designed to ensure the existence of the state, but they have an interest in ensuring their own existence, which can sometimes pose a threat to the survival of the state as in the case of the Soviet Army. All war is organized human violence designed to threaten or protect a political system. Every war, internal and external, is for or against a new order. Military systems because they are closed and undemocratic hierarchical systems, the level of intelligent communication in them is low, and it is difficult to reach the truth in them, therefore in these systems there is no process of intelligent learning of lessons, but rather a process of "Darwinian learning of lessons" of natural selection."
So based on the guest essay you allowed yesterday, can I assume that all of this is solely for the Orthodox? Or are the rest of us Jews after all?
You don’t win until the enemy officially surrenders. It’s only a cease-fire with an exchange of prisoners for hostages and some territorial gains at this point.