Spare a thought for the Jewish middle class of Israel

Spare a thought for the East European middle class Jews who founded the state of Israel. They undertook this heroic effort in order finally to have a normal state of their own in which to live a normal life; a normal life unmessed with by nonsensical ideologies which claim to be more important than life; ideologies which demand that life be submitted to higher causes – God, empire, whatnot.

Instead, these refugees from ideology now increasingly find themselves in a state run by a combination of religious freaks (the settlers) and nationalist Imperialists (chiefly, Russians). The curse of ideology – religious, nationalist, racist, imperialist – has followed the founders of the state all the way to Palestine. One can’t escape from these evil dwarves of the mind, these monstrous perversions, these sick nightmares – it turns out – even across the sea and to another continent.