Is Israel Athens or Sparta?
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Leonard Fein
Publication Name
Jewish Daily Forward
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Forward Association
Abstract
In 1976, Saul Bellow wrote of how Israel sought to be both Athens and Sparta - and largely succeeded. But have 35 years of occupation and war turned the country into Fortress Israel, into only Sparta? Yes and no. Israel is what it has always been, a land of stunning contradictions - between wholly Jewish and wholly democratic, between Nobel Prizes and border fences. In short, it is still somewhere between Athens and Sparta.
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Israel
Palestinian Territories
Palestinian Territories
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