Posted on 10/27/2016 5:43:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Ever since Theodore Herzl had the vision to re-establish a Jewish State, Israel has been a prominent player on the world stage. To put it in perspective, this country is one-tenth the size of the state of Texas and has one-third the population. Yet, it plays a far more central role in world affairs than its tiny size might normally dictates. A book recently published explores Israels history, and how it succeeded in the face of insurmountable odds.
Daniel Gordis in his book Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn speaks of the founding of Israel as a fairy tale. Israel is a story of a homeless people that kept a dream alive, of a peoples redemption from the edge of the abyss, of a nation forging a future when none seemed possible. While he recounts its history, readers begin to understand that Israel has become a blending of democracy and tradition with far more prosperity than anyone expected from it.
He told American Thinker, I wanted to show, of the many countries that were created in the twentieth century, Israel is one of the very few that was founded as a democracy that has remained democratic. This would be impressive in its own right, but it is even more astonishing when we consider the fact that the vast majority of Jews who immigrated to Israel, from Russia, Arab countries, etc., came from countries without a democratic tradition. There was this unwavering determination of Israels founding generation to be part of the Western world.
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Israel always somehow overcomes the odds.
Insight, preparation, planning, education, hard work and utter determination - that’s how Israel ‘overcomes the odds.’
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