There is a lot of intelligence in Israel, creativity, improvisation, and technological depth. She also has almost uncontrollable political passions, which also have negation, but they point to life force and involvement. Beside the intellect and the lively politics, which often slip into the area of ​​I and nothing more, there is very little social and cultural discernment in Israel. Sometimes it even seems that the power of socio-cultural discernment, and the ability to understand the meaning of Israeli culture and the cultural authenticity etched on the Israeli wall for thousands of years, are on the verge of lagging behind. A retardation that is not a congenital disability, but rather it resulted from the way we returned to our historical homeland. This cultural defect breeds hatred towards Israel. Because when a culture is not seen as an authentic culture, it has no depth, and the meaning here is not intellectual depth, but the depth of cultural truth, and it does not have an authentic depth that allows one to see the origins of the culture clearly and unequivocally, it is seen as a fake culture. And our modern culture now has a deep flaw of counterfeiting.

Our culture is not fake in the sense that it has no cultural foundation. It has a deep and wonderful foundation of a moderate, deep-thinking people, whose every move is fraught with considerations, who respects the other person, whether he is a person or a nation, who has not turned his suffering into hatred and rage, who returned and forgave his anger, and whose quarry is forever in the East; Our culture is not authentic because it does not rely on the full cultural strengths of historical Israel, and since the beginning of modern Israel, the Israeli cultural reactor has been fed only by parts of the cultural strengths of the Israelis.

Israel has always been, and will always remain, a society, before it is a political entity. Israel is first a community, and all its political rules are affected by this (the dictators of the legal coup did not understand this, and therefore they also did not understand where the popular uprising came from). That is why the social cultural deficiency is so pronounced, and the reaction to it in the Muslim world is so emotional.

From this (partial) cultural analysis, derives our political assessment written here last week, according to which we must first bring about the deportation of Hamas to Tunisia (on the condition that it leaves all our captives and missing persons unharmed, and leaves its weapons behind), and Hezbollah and Iran must be attacked, and we must do this when we distance ourselves somewhat from America and act on our own.

Israel will not be able to culturally integrate into the region as an American satellite state. And even before that, to integrate, Israel needs to appear in its authentic culture. The pursuit of our authentic culture must exist in an environment where Israel is an independent state, whose actions correspond to the characteristics of Israeli culture, and the independent characteristics of the people of Israel in its three thousand and five hundred years.

Another thing, the Iranian hatred towards Israel, is not cultural hatred, it is religious hatred that deepened in Israeli behavior with inauthentic cultural characteristics, and which took a political form. The effects of this hatred in the Islamic world on the cultural attitude towards Israel is enormous. Since in the religious writings of the Islamic world, on their cultural side, good things are also written about the Israelis, we must uproot the crucible of Iranian Lebanese hatred, so that we can convince the Islamic world that the good things that are written about us have a deep foundation in our authentic culture. This should be our way to culturally integrate into the space that Ahad Ha'am and Fyaarberg (and the crazy Nachman) rightly saw as a crucible of our cultural quarry. If we don't uproot the Iranian hatred by force of arms, it will work hard to uproot us. In the past, there was the impression that Israel would be able to hold a dialogue even with the oppressors of Iran and Hezbollah. Now it doesn't seem so. Therefore, the decision should not be postponed any longer.

Mati Cohen