15 January 2011

A nation, not an empire

To achieve totalitarian control requires imperial reach. Small countries can't marshall the resources to accomplish a truly totalitarian lockdown of the population. 
Israel remains small so that it cannot be tempted into totalitarian conceits. It must remain small so that it can serve as a laboratory for new political/economic ideologies. 
Israel is designed to be a nation but not an empire, and there's something important there that Israel's leaders, especially her spiritual leaders, need explicitly to appreciate about her. 

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