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I think this article is right on the pulse. But today the countrys national narrative of macho victimhood appears to the rest of the world as simply bizarre: evidence of a sort of collective cognitive dysfunction that has gripped Israels political culture. And the long cultivated persecution mania - everyones out to get us - no longer elicits sympathy. Instead it attracts some very unappetizing comparisons: At a recent international meeting I heard one speaker, by analogy with Helmut Schmidts famous dismissal of the Soviet Union as Upper Volta with Missiles, describe Israel as Serbia with nukes.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:11:22 +0000

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