In his 2004 essay Contemplations on Peace, the left-wing Israeli novelist David Grossman said this about the “flare of identity” in Israel. “It reaches as far as the Green Line,” he argued, but “no farther.” Beyond, “the nature of the blaze changes: it either cools and melts away indifferently, alienated from what is occurring there, or becomes an exaggerated frenzy, among the settlers and the various messianic Jews.”
Two tribes
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