The National has a great piece of reporting from Israel, pithily titled, Young Israelis Resent Occupation. Yesss!! And here is an important statement from Avraham Burg in his new book which I will be booming on this site for a long time to come. It is his description of the convulsive reception of the book a year back when it was published in Israel (so unlike the convulsion it ain't creating in blindered Jewry here):
The vast majority of the angriest opponents were in their fifties or older, and most of the supportive and interested readers were young–in their teens, twenties and thirties. Israel's well-to-do and smug elders were unable to contain their anger at me for having dared to question and examine the sanctified aximos of the life that they have established at such a dear price with their bodies, souls, and sacrifices. Whereas the young, sensing that something is amiss, hollow, or fake in the 'canonical' Israeli being, sought me out, and they were many. They came to see me of their own accord, not necessarily to hear my answers, but always out of a wish to partake of the questioning process [beautiful idea]… The members of my children's generation are the source of infinite optimism, I feel, in relation to my people and my homeland.
Do you feel that wind? I do.
