The inevitable decline and fall of Zionism

There is a moment in the moral life of nations when the lies that sustained them can no longer hold. Israel is living through that moment. The images that came out of Gaza were not evidence of war’s brutality. They are the autopsy of the painstakingly constructed myth of Israel as a refuge for the persecuted, a democracy in the desert, and a moral beacon in a sea of barbarism. That myth, so elaborately maintained, so viciously defended, has now been burned alive in the same rubble it created. The journalist and writer Chris Hedges, one of the few voices in American media who dared speak plainly while others trembled, warned years ago that “we have given Israel carte blanche […]