Plucky Bradley Burston has written a spirited commentary on the current state of Jerusalem in the Arab-Israeli conflict:
This is where the war ends.
It begins here.
It begins in a city which practices what Jerusalem preaches
And what Jerusalem, with its vicious holy men, betrays:
God’s work.
The city which practices what Jerusalem preaches? You mean like the drug addicted prostitutes, the public bathrooms reeking of feces and urine, the ego-maniacal “I don’t give a damn” Tel Aviv attitude, the loitering foreign workers, the pig heads nailed to the door in the Carmel market? That Tel Aviv? The holy men I know in Jerusalem are teaching scriptures to their students and helping the less fortunate. Perhaps you don’t understand Tel Aviv and you certainly don’t understand Jerusalem, Bradley!
The article continues:
As we pass, the woman on the sidewalk asks “Are you people trying to kill my country?”
My 15-year old daughter answers without hesitation. “Has v’shalom.” Heaven Forbid.
This is what every smug leftist in Israel contends. Who…MEEEE? This girl was taught to hate real Torah Judaism and Jerusalem and everything that entails-except…being chosen. Nope, that perk is too perky to let go.
The siege of Jerusalem continues:
This is where it begins.
Not the Jerusalem of murderous faith and a vengeful God
But in a city which faces God because it faces the world.
“This is a taste of the World to Come,” my wife says, the crowd swaying to music, other peoples and their own.
Murderous faith? Vengeful G-d? That’s not what Little Miss Secular Zionism was touting fifty years ago (or even twenty years ago). Yes, the world to come for Tel Aviv is pretending to be gentile, but being remaining chosen simultaneously. Whatever is comfortable at the moment.
Lastly, in an eruption of half-cocked patriotism Burston exclaims:
“This country is too young to die.
I declare the war is over.”
Next year in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
Which war? You actually mean the Jewish identity crisis, right? The war over what a Jew should be. In sneaky leftist fashion you don’t explicitly say that, but that is certainly your intention. Next year in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, here Jews and Arabs “get along” because Jews have complete control over the political demographics and Arabs are separated from the wealthier, elitist Jewish Tel Aviv? You really mean next year in Tel Aviv for the Jews and the Arabs and stay in Jaffa where they couldn’t possibly complain in their segregated Israeli paradise. No thanks, Bradley. Keep your smug, secular, contagious lies on your artificial mound of sand-Tel Aviv.
