Sublime

with courage and strategic brilliance.

Embittered, Sharon agreed to step down as defense minister, but he remained in the government as a “minister without portfolio,” not responsible for any particular ministry. Humiliated and widely detested, it would have been difficult to imagine then that just two decades later, that same pugnacious Ariel Sharon would become prime minister and woul

Prisoners of War.

On June 3, 1982, Palestinian terrorists shot Israel’s ambassador to England, Shlomo Argov, in London.

Theresienstadt-manufactured

The fascination with Zion is now at the heart of the English Romanticism of the colonial era.

“What the gentiles say is less important than what the Jews do,”

the Israeli-born Sabras are so self-confident. They are the sons and daughters of a fantasy that is fulfilling itself. Their life experience is that of an astounding collective success, based on self-reliance and innovation.

That’s why the Ein Harod imperative is absolute. There is no compassion in this just-born kibbutz. There is no indulgence, no tolerance, no self-pity. There is no place for individual rights and individual needs and individual wants. Every single person is on trial. And although remote and desolate, this valley will witness the events that determin