How can Israel become strong and independent?!
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
“As we navigate these and other challenges, let us remember that the strength of the Jewish people lies in our unity and unwavering commitment to our shared destiny.”
To be fair, almost everyone in Israel agrees that our strength, independence and our ability to defend ourselves and to progress depends on our national unity.
The problem is that we do not know how to achieve that unity.
The problem is that we forgot a long time ago that to achieve true and lasting unity, we all need to rise above and behave against our inherently egocentric, self-serving, and self-justifying nature that separates and rejects us from each other.
Basically, the whole world is against Israel; even our allies try to pressure us into defeat. We are facing non-compromising enemies — who want us all dead — on multiple fronts. Still, we fight against each other, we doubt and undermine one another, and we constantly try to “correct” or even “get rid” of certain people or elements in Israeli society.
We have no idea about true mutual responsibility and mutual guarantee, not even when we are literally fighting for our existence.
Our only chance for building true unity and mutual guarantee is by returning to our original “Jewish method,” the “method and instructions of the Torah” that can help us recognize and accept our inherent nature and provide the tools for correcting ourselves with the help of unique “natural or godly” — forces that are around and above us.