What the article says is what the majority (for now) of Israelis (both secular and religious zionists) feel and what we observe in the Western world. The example of the former Soviet Union shows what happens when dreams (however beautiful) start ruling the real world where people have very different dreams. Unless the western world wakes up soon itself it will be woken up to the reality where the word "liberalism" and the songs of Lennon are the reason for persecution.

Mao, Chomsky, Peres & most of Western "Academia"....You get the drift?

Sure, rejection of nationalistic sentiment is dangerous for states based on nationalism. Similarly for racism and states like Nazi Germany or Apartheid South Africa. But nationalism is dangerous for the world, and so maybe states based on nationalism (whether that "nation" is a recent invention or not) belong to the past, if humanity as a whole is not to belong to the past.

yes the test will be not even in our children but our grandchildren, whether we've succeeded or failed to create and maintain the institutional and cultural values that keep us a nation, a people, and hopefully jews. your comments go right to the heart of the problems. and hopefully successes. again, thanks. may you go from strength to strength.

Very rare.
he would have passed the "language Turing test:
Reading what he wrote, I would have taken him as a native
English speaker

There is nothing alluring, to Jews, about John Lennon's foolish urge to "imagine there's no country". We suffered the Holocaust, and centuries of persecution, because we had no country.

Wherever you travel in the world you will see its national flag flown
above its schools and all institutions except of course one....Israel
Nationalism has been played down for 40 years led by the
extreme Post Zionist Left that never believed there should be
a Jewish Homeland , controlling the Media they weakened the
very spirit of the Jews here to the point where an estimated
million now live abroad the most Jewishly ignorant generation
in all our history , they almost succeeded in closing down the
Zionist dream only thankfully most Israeli Jews somehow were
able to retain a healthy mind and simply out populated the Left
it has been said" there are only three things in life that are important
numbers numbers and numbers:" So thankfully only demographics
will defeat the likes of the author of this article and save the
Jewish Homeland for future generations, let the Post Zionists
seek to destroy some other country self destruction is what they
and the most in the Left anywhere do best

The Beatles must be having a nervous breakdown as their fellow
Brits just voted quite the opposite the world wants loves and
appreciates its various cultures and customs and is not ready
to sacrifice them on the altar of national suicide all cultures have
something unique to contribute no need to metamorphize into
a bland Mac Donald's World.

great comment!