The real post-Zionists

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The real post-Zionists

By Daniel Ben Simon



They arrived last Sunday at dawn from Kfar Darom, from Morag and from Neveh Dekalim in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip and settled at the entrance to the polling station in the town of Ofakim, with the aim of persuading the inhabitants to vote against the disengagement plan. As they went about their business, the rumor spread that something bad had happened on the Kissufim route. The telephones began to clamor and a few minutes later the extent of the monstrosity of the terror attack, in which an entire family perished in the blink of an eye, became clear.



It quickly turned out that that the dozens of Jewish settlers who were at the entrance to the polling station knew the family, a few of them quite well. Chabad emissaries at the polling station began to read Psalms while others returned to their previous activities. Within minutes, the shocking incident receded. Again the calls were heard to the people of Ofakim to come and vote and the settlers went back to scurrying along the main road and visiting homes to urge the inhabitants to get out and vote.

The activity proceeded under the baton of Oz Kadmon, an inhabitant of Kfar Darom, a stern-faced man with the typical look of a drooping skullcap, negligent haberdashery and sandals that have known better days. Seconds after he was informed of the tragedy that had occurred only a few hundred meters from his home, he identified the benefit that could be reaped from it for the settlement project. "Today five more strong tent-pegs were planted in the land of the Gush. Today there will be five more fresh graves in the land of the Gush that will be impossible to move."

In this way everything was subordinated to the issue that looked to the settlers like a life-and-death struggle. Not only the fate of Gush Katif hangs in the balance, but also the continued existence of the settlement worldview that has steered Israeli society for several decades now.......

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/425450.html

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1. Who is to say?

Who are the REAL post-Zionists? They are most likely, the Israelis living in Israel today. For example, the author of this blog:

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