David's Israel Adventure

This blog will chronicle the adventures of me, David Weinfeld, as an Otzma fellow in Israel, from August 21st, 2005 to May 29th, 2006. I hope this is as exciting for you as it is for me (though that would be a tad bizarre, now wouldn't it?).

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Why the State was formed

Forget Zionism for a minute. After spending much of yesterday and today in Tel Aviv, I now understand. We went to the beach in the afternoon. The beach, like the women, was beautiful. The waves were huge, the sun was strong, the water clear, everything perfect. The Arsim were in full form, but so were tons of great people, happy to meet us and talk to us. We took pictures with little children who danced near us. We peed in the mediterannean.

THat night, we eventually returned to the beach, to place which must be the most beaitufl on earth. A hooka bar, on the beach, where you literally sit with yuor toes in the sand, smoke nargila, drink beer, and watch the waves in front of you or the city behind you. All around you flurescent cones provide a lovely green glow. They say it's a tourist trap. If that's the case, trap away, my friend. Trap a-fucking way. I don't care if people say it's hokey, or artificial or bourgeois or tacky or anything else. Cuz I'm coming back there. When they won the war in 1948, they didn't only win for Zionism, or for Jewish continuity. They won so that we could enjoy this place.

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