When you say we stand alone and always have, I am not sure whether you are referring to Israel's Left, Israel itself or the Jews.
All three are true. If I remember, the last time we exchanged posts, we talked about Bibi posing an existential threat to the survival of Israel. There is a huge gap between my positions and those of Israel's social democrats (yourself included, I suspect), but there is no one in Israel other than Bibi I would accuse of threatening Israel's survival. One of my most bitter resentments toward the American and European Left is that they are showing zero support for Israel's Left, unlike American right wingers who are 100% behind Bibi. This, IMO, was one of the biggest reasons why it was Bibi who got to to form the latest government and not Lapid. The things that "could have" been...
As far as the Jews in Israel and and in the diaspora, there is no distinction: we always stood alone. We are used to this, and we adjusted, for better or worse. What makes me fear for my life today, though, is quite different: what distresses me to no end is the normalization of antisemitism and the antisemitic activism taking place on a global scale. This leaves us with no place to run, a survival strategy, however flawed, that had sustained the nation in the past. The next Shoah, and it is coming, will be global. This fills me with dread I never felt before.
Sorry to dump all of this on you in response to your post, but I can't help addressing Israel politics, a two-state solution (which I believe is absolutely necessary for Israel's survival), America's role, or even the regional intra-Muslim rivalries tearing the Middle East apart as it has done for hundreds of years, without focusing on an even more devastating phenomenon: the active and coordinated campaign to normalize antisemitism across the globe.
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