In his book, Dennis Ross offers an explanation of why Israeli identity came to be shaped around violence... (here follows the old tiring holocaust thing)
Phil, the sad thing is that a people trained since toddlers to memorize history by means of the mnemonic device of creating hiperbole and absurd relations between events and peoples will never be able to explain their identity to others. Never.
It's better to learn nothing from the past and start your life afresh than to memorize a distorted version of it for the single purpose of justifying your next act of violence.
That's the way to be less of a Victim and more of a Man, a thing an accountant could easily do, perhaps, were he more of a Man and less eager to exploit the credits he would receive as Victim.
In his book, Dennis Ross offers an explanation of why Israeli identity came to be shaped around violence... (here follows the old tiring holocaust thing)
Phil, the sad thing is that a people trained since toddlers to memorize history by means of the mnemonic device of creating hiperbole and absurd relations between events and peoples will never be able to explain their identity to others. Never.
It's better to learn nothing from the past and start your life afresh than to memorize a distorted version of it for the single purpose of justifying your next act of violence.
That's the way to be less of a Victim and more of a Man, a thing an accountant could easily do, perhaps, were he more of a Man and less eager to exploit the credits he would receive as Victim.