Only Israel might speak with the voice of the prophets of old

That Israel is alone against the world is not as surprising as it might seem. Israel’s ideology, after all, is alone against the prevailing ideology around the world. It is fitting that Israel’s immediate enemies are arch-villains who exercise public plunder and that the leadership of her enemies are the world's exemplars of self-indulgence. In contrast, Israel’s image is that of an earnest nation predicated on creative power and on the sort of self-restraint among its leaders that stewardship demands. 

Israel’s enemies represent, in its most extreme manifestation, the prevailing ideology of public plunder and of self-indulgent ruling elites. Other nations around the world embrace that same ideology, if perhaps in forms somewhat less severe and less brutal than is practiced by Israel’s enemies. Only Israel, by virtue of the Jewish people’s long history as well as by virtue of Israel’s sons’ ancient legacy, is constituted to oppose public plunder and to decry rulers who would tolerate and excuse manifest irresponsibility. 

Only Israel might speak with the voice of the prophets of old. What needs to happen in Israel is for Zionism to be rechanneled to such a prophetic understanding so that the people of Israel could come to know themselves for the destiny that is, by fate and of necessity, theirs.