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A Living, Breathing State

posted on 05/09/08

Leading Israeli commentator Nahum Barnea, "Unforgiven," Yedioth Aharonoth May 2nd, 2008:

“Dreams are a good thing, either if dreamt by one person or by an entire people. The element of dream is especially important to a state such as Israel, with its establishment being the realization of a dream and with its current desperate need for a dream or a vision.
But its existence is not condition[ed] on the dream. Israel is not a startup: It is an established and rooted state. A state filled with failures, inner diseases and outside problems, but still a living and breathing state. Seven million people live here, eat here, drink, love, work for a living, fight for their lives.”