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State of Israel – Did you learn anything? https://www.didyoulearnanything.net An archived blog about education, language, peace, and other fine things Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:09:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Gideon Levy: “After 115 years, it’s time for Zionism to retire” https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2012/04/29/gideon-levy-after-115-years-its-time-for-zionism-to-retire/ Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:27:41 +0000 http://www.didyoulearnanything.net/?p=2204 Gideon Levy suggests Zionism should be retired. (Ha’aretz)

After 115 years, it’s time for Zionism to retire

The national liberation movement’s time came and went. Now we have a state. Neither good citizenship nor misdeeds have anything to do with Zionism anymore.

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Zionism’s way has been lost to us. That was inevitable, because it has completed its task. Once the State of Israel arose and became a national home nearly at the retirement age of the movement that engendered it, once it became established, strong and powerful, and brutal and impervious, its flag should have been folded, stored in the repositories of history as a souvenir, and Zionism should no longer have its name taken in vain. The old order of Zionism is over and the campaign over the character and appearance of the state should begin, as happens in every healthy state.

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( Original Hebrew » )

 

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