Grown people criticized adolescents throughout the ages as immoral, lazy, money-hungry, etc. The adolescents grew up and similarly criticized their children. Teenagers don’t have our values, but neither had we have those values when were young. Values are a product of extreme indoctrination or long-term personal development. Israeli children are not ardent Zionists like their parents, but what Russian or American Jew was ardent Zionist at the age of fourteen? Titans like Zhabotinsky made some teenagers Jewish zealots, but most people distilled their values later on in life. Children are even more superficial than adults, and go for shiny objects: music stars, glamorous living, etc. Life will soon break their hopes to become new Madonna or for a villa in Beverly Hills, and they will start looking for alternative goals. They will come to the Jewish idea, and do so from much better start up position than their parents. Israeli children lack the Exile mentality, fear, and excuse-me-for-being-alive attitude. They know how to hate. They hate Arabs. Later, they will look to rationalize hatred, and embrace Zionism – not ethnic-blind democracy.
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"Values are a product of extreme indoctrination or long-term personal development. "
Ideas are a product of indoctrination and development. Values is what you get with your mother's milk, as a toddler. It's not a metafor. They are at the very core of your psyche.
Being Zionist is not a value. It is a reflection of the value of Justice under the proper reasoning by a properly informed well-meaning individual.
Main-stream Israeli value of "having good times" passed by parents to their children is corruption, and it brings corruption of betrayal of the Land for the supposed economic benefit.
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"they will … rationalize hatred, and embrace Zionism"
So for Obadia, Zionism is a rationalzation of hatred? It's an idea straight from the notions of antisemite moralizators.
In fact it is nothing of the sort. Our Right is to this Land. We don't need to hate the murderous imposters, we just need to see them clearly for what they are.
Hate debases the hater. Deal with them rationally. The Left builds up a perverse morality of preferring their lifes over ours. Reject this, but don't betray your own morality.
The greatest lie of bleeding-hearts is that they "care", that they're the "moral" ones. To denounce them, don't denouce the morality. Denounce their perversion of it.
Good point Aaron,
No need to hate enemies, only need to completely defeat them!
To denounce the perversion of morality would be great, but it requires a large-scale propaganda efforts, which is not forthcoming realistically