In the Darkness of Israeli Society, a Few Rays of Light Are Shining Through - Opinion - Haaretz - Israel News Haaretz.com
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This week that begins with Holocaust Remembrance Day, followed by Memorial Day and capped by Independence Day, is the most Israeli week there is. It transports us from memories of the terrible Holocaust to the experience of rebirth and independence. It sums up our entire modern history — that of a persecuted and humiliated nation that shook off its past and managed to establish a state, to build a society and an economy and to maintain an army that doesn’t allow anyone to even dream about another Final Solution.
So, yes. I know that it’s possible to paint the entire reality that we have created here in the blackest of colors, to say that we’re the most immoral nation in the world and not to find even a small ray of light. I am proposing another possibility: grasping those rays of light, enhancing them and hoping that with their help, “Our hope is not yet lost,” as our anthem states.