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- Title: Zion in Winter: As Jews Ponder Their Fractious Political Condition, Shlomo Brody Argues That Israel's Accomplishments will Help Restore the Faith of Religious Zionists (Opinion) (Essay)
- Author : Shlomo Brody
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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Is religious Zionism in crisis? The 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, and the Oslo peace process that preceded it, have shattered the movement's territorial aspirations and distanced it from the Israeli mainstream. It's a curious thing: How did this movement, passionately dedicated to grand ideas of both the Bible and nationalism, find itself savaged by critics as irrelevant fanaticism and bemoaned by its own adherents as a failure? In the centuries before Zionism emerged, the Jewish people suffered not only persecutions and expulsions but also repeated messianic movements that dashed the hopes of the downtrodden. Those of Bar Kochba in the second century and Shabbatai Tzvi in the seventeenth are only two of the more famous. Jewish history is replete with such unfortunate episodes. (I live near a street named after the twelfth-century messianic pretender David Alroy. Only in Jerusalem do they name streets after false messiahs.)
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