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Titolo: Yair Lapid - I am a Zionist

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 I am a Zionist.
I believe that the Jewish people established itself in the Land of
Israel, albeit somewhat late. Had it listened to the alarm clock,
there would have been no Holocaust, and my dead grandfather – the one
I was named after – would have been able to dance a last waltz with
grandma on the shores of the Yarkon River.
I am a Zionist.
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator, and also to swear
on the road. The Bible does not only contain my history, but also my
geography. King Saul went to look for mules on what is today Highway
443, Jonah the Prophet boarded his ship not too far from what is today
a Jaffa restaurant, and the balcony where David peeped on Bathsheba
must have been bought by some oligarch by now.
I am a Zionist.
The first time I saw my son wearing an IDF uniform I burst into tears,
I haven't missed the Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony for 20
years now, and my television was made in Korea, but I taught it to
cheer for our national soccer team.
I am a Zionist.
I believe in our right for this land. The people who were persecuted
for no reason throughout history have a right to a state of their own
plus a free F-16 from the manufacturer. Every display of anti-Semitism
from London to Mumbai hurts me, yet deep inside I'm thinking that Jews
who choose to live abroad fail to understand something very basic
about this world. The State of Israel was not established so that the
anti-Semites will disappear, but rather, so we can tell them to get
lost.
I am a Zionist.
I was fired at in Lebanon, a Katyusha rockets missed me by a few feet
in Kiryat Shmona, missiles landed near my home during the first Gulf
War, I was in Sderot when the Color Red anti-rocket alert system was
activated, terrorists blew themselves up not too far from my parents'
house, and my children stayed in a bomb shelter before they even knew
how to pronounce their own name, clinging to a grandmother who arrived
here from Poland to escape death. Yet nonetheless, I always felt
fortunate to be living here, and I don't really feel good anywhere
else.
I am a Zionist.
I think that anyone who lives here should serve in the army, pay
taxes, vote in the elections, and be familiar with the lyrics of at
least one Shalom Hanoch song. I think that the State of Israel is not
only a place, it is also an idea, and I wholeheartedly believe in the
three extra commandments engraved on the wall of the Holocaust museum
in Washington: "Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a
perpetrator, but above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."
I am a Zionist.
I already laid down on my back to admire the Sistine Chapel, I bought
a postcard at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, and I was deeply
impressed by the emerald Buddha at the king's palace in Bangkok. Yet I
still believe that Tel Aviv is more entertaining, the Red Sea is
greener, and the Western Wall Tunnels provide for a much more powerful
spiritual experience. It is true that I'm not objective, but I'm also
not objective in respect to my wife and children.
I am a Zionist.
I am a man of tomorrow but I also live my past. My dynasty includes
Moses, Jesus, Maimonides, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein,
Woody Allen, Bobby Fischer, Bob Dylan, Franz Kafka, Herzl, and Ben-
Gurion. I am part of a tiny persecuted minority that influenced the
world more than any other nation. While others invested their energies
in war, we had the sense to invest in our minds.
I am a Zionist.
I sometimes look around me and become filled with pride, because I
live better than a billion Indians, 1.3 billion Chinese, the entire
African continent, more than 250 million Indonesians, and also better
than the Thais, the Filipinos, the Russians, the Ukrainians, and the
entire Muslim world, with the exception of the Sultan of Brunei. I
live in a country under siege that has no natural resources, yet
nonetheless the traffic lights always work and we have high-speed
connection to the Internet.
I am a Zionist.
My Zionism is natural, just like it is natural for me to be a father,
a husband, and a son. People who claim that they, and only they,
represent the "real Zionism" are ridiculous in my view. My Zionism is
not measured by the size of my kippa, by the neighborhood where I
live, or by the party I will be voting for. It was born a long time
before me, on a snowy street in the ghetto in Budapest where my father
stood and attempted, in vain, to understand why the entire world is
trying to kill him.
I am a Zionist.
Every time an innocent victim dies, I bow my head because once upon a
time I was an innocent victim. I have no desire or intention to adopt
the moral standards of my enemies. I do not want to be like them. I do
not live on my sword; I merely keep it under my pillow.
I am a Zionist.
I do not only hold on to the rights of our forefathers, but also to
the duty of the sons. The people who established this state lived and
worked under much worse conditions than I have to face, yet
nonetheless they did not make do with mere survival. They also
attempted to establish a better, wiser, more humane, and more moral
state here. They were willing to die for this cause, and I try to live
for its sake.
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"Io la interpreto come una volontà di mettermi a tacere" (Luca Logi /
rodewalder / Golda Meir)
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2009/01/io-la-interpreto-come-una-volont-di.html

 Woody Allen, Bobby Fischer,
AHEM 
http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer/list/p_42/42_0.htm

 era neppure ebreo...non colonizziamo anche la storia...
La cosa divertente č andarsi a cercare cosa scriveva Freud di Mosč...