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Indeed, "post-Zionism" has become the root of all evil in the rhetoric of the Israeli right. As Israelis weary of sending generation after generation of their children into wars which not even the most decisive military victory can end, they have lost the will to continue the Jewish national struggle and are more inclined to concede the country's most fundamental values, like control over the Temple Mount, for the sake of peace--and quiet. Or at least, so say Safire and his right-wing chums, who take "peacemonger" as a much stronger insult than "warmonger...
...Jewish state needs democratic discourse and strong political opposition. Unfortunately, the Palestinian conflict has drawn attention away from challenges and issues--including the secular-religious divide and the socioeconomic status of the Arabs and Jewish immigrants--which are the real stumbling blocks to Israeli national unity. If Sharon executes his campaign pledge to end the single-minded obsession with formal peace talks that characterized Barak's government, a policy which would obviate the need for a unity government, then perhaps some of these pressing domestic issues can finally be addressed...
Although Sharon professes to seek "peace with security," it is unlikely that the terms of peace he has in mind--full Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem, retention of most Jewish settlements, and control over the strategic Jordan Valley--will be acceptable to many Palestinians. Palestinians also charge that Sharon prompted the latest uprising by his heavily-guarded September visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Whether or not the responsibility for the recent violence lies with Sharon, the distrust he has gained in the Arab world will make any rapprochement with Palestinians or neighboring Arab nations difficult...
...morbid symptoms of Israel's inconclusive electoral system are reflective of the Jewish state's increasingly fractious makeup. But while Israeli politicians have their philosophical differences, the extent to which those interfere with their political choices is limited. National security has always been the organizing principle of Israeli politics, and the differences among politicians must be read against their common security concerns. The last four prime ministers Israelis have elected have been senior military officers, two from each side of the political divide. Those men differed profoundly on strategy and tactics, but they share the same core concerns. For example...
Which brings us to Sol LeWitt, there in the Whitney. There is no doubt of the probity and generosity of this artist, born in 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents and trained at Syracuse University and at New York's School of Visual Arts, with an additional background of architectural drafting in the offices of I.M. Pei. Every one of the seven essays in the show's thick catalog pays effusive tribute to the sum of LeWitt's virtues, his "openness" and his "honesty," his recoil from the cult of "heroic" personality and his generous encouragement of a score...