Summer Reading: "Rebirth" in Israel: The Rebirth of a Nation

Rebirth is a word that has multiple meanings for the individual, the nation, the state, and the faith of Israel, and there is no other nation that can combine the individual, the nation, the state, and the faith in such a context of war! And that one word is precisely one of the punctuating words of the entire book.

Evil officials can not break the family

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the first half of this year, known as the largest conflict in the two places in recent years, almost evolved into a full-scale war between the two places, the root of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as early as the "Bible" on the buried fuse, the Jews into the Promised Land of Canaan (the Palestinian areas), but did not listen to God's will to clean this place, leaving the foreigner to become their own! The Jews entered the Promised Land of Canaan (Palestine), but did not follow God's will to cleanse the land, leaving the foreigners to become their own breach, subject to God's discipline, plague, and neighboring enemies. Afterwards, Israel was divided between the north and the south, and died one after another. The most tragic thing was that the ten tribes of the northern kingdom were ordered by the king of Assyria to move into the surrounding Assyrian areas and be assimilated by the foreigners - the king of Assyria wanted to erase the nation of Israel from the history of the nation. The southern kingdom of Judah was destroyed by Babylon, and the king of Babylon chose the "useful" Jews to move to the land of Babylon, where they became slaves to their own country, but some of them, such as Daniel, became the seed of the faith, and synagogues were established throughout the land. The kingdom of Babylon was destroyed by the more powerful kingdom of Persia, and the Arabs began to dominate the region of Palestine, and finally, through the efforts of Nehemiah and Ezra, among others, the Jews were able to return to Jerusalem, rebuild the Holy City, and restore their faith. As a result, the more powerful Roman Empire destroyed the Persian Empire, and the Jews were again under Roman domination. The Jews were humiliated, and a radical group of Jews, the Endeavourites, started an uprising and armed struggle (as a Chinese person, are you familiar with this phrase?). After the Roman Empire finally suppressed the uprising, it seems to have adopted the practice of the Assyrian state and moved the Jews to different places, thus the Jews began a long history of more than 2,000 years of dispersion, which truly realized "gathering as a ball of fire, dispersing as a star in the sky"! Against this historical background, the inability of the Jews to launch a larger-scale resistance by force led them to return to their faith and traditions to seek God's "liberation" - the Savior, the Messiah - and the preaching of Jesus came into being, which is the work of God, the lineage of Christ, and a combination of theology and theology. The Zionist movement was born out of this "fertile soil", which also gave birth to the "human approach", the Zionist movement.

Then we can find a very interesting phenomenon, the Jews regarded Palestine as the "Promised Land", with the "right of abode" promised by God, but historically and politically the Arabs have a "long history of abode", which is superior to that of the Arabs. "Long history of residence". This is like saying that an Arab has lived for a long time (generations) in the "Palestinian neighborhood" of a certain suite, and a Jew took an antique real estate certificate, which says that the owner of the suite is him, not to fight it is strange!

The old Chinese saying, "It is difficult for a clean official to resolve family affairs" can be used in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the "clean official" has to be changed to an "evil official", the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union (Russia), and each harboring ulterior motives. The United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union (Russia), each with its own agenda, and China, the maternal uncle, is too close to Iran, the enemy of Israel, and it's not a good idea to be a good person. "Family affairs" must be changed to "family affairs", Palestine and Israel, you tender not dead me, I can not do you, the injustice is endless!

Israel's problems can't be solved by human beings.

One War, One Map

The author of this book calls it a "general history" of the founding of the state of Israel, centering on the founding of the state of Israel, and selecting very important historical events to link the whole process. A large part of the so-called important historical events are the wars, and behind the wars is a map, the so-called program for the partition of the Palestinian-Israeli lands. Yet none of these maps came to fruition, on the one hand the hard-line obstinacy of the Palestinian Arabs, who refused to accept any of the programs, and even the Oslo Accords, which came closest to success, ended without a trace with the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Rabin.

Arafat this person does not seem to be as positive as our domestic reports on him, it can be seen, China's relationship with the PLO is very similar to the relationship between the recent and the Taliban organization, once the U.S.-China relations are at odds, China tends to look for U.S. rivals or rivals to get on well, the so-called enemy's friend is also my friend. Who ever thought that Arafat is a backtracking, dishonorable person, on the one hand, signed the Oslo Accords, on the other hand, refused to put it into action, equivalent to a turnaround on the disavowal of the account, the purpose of which is to continue to receive attention for personal and Palestinian state, to use the proverbial phrase that is to have a sense of international presence, to brush up the diplomatic traffic, to maintain their own is a hero of Palestinian Arabs' image. Arafat is no better than Bin Laden in launching terrorist attacks to achieve the goal of expanding the situation and attracting international attention.

Israel's ruling party, whether left-wing or right-wing, and even the emergence of centrists, former Prime Minister Sharon is, are looking for a way out of the State of Israel, looking for the road to peace with the neighboring countries, they rely on the force of arms and Egypt to reach a peace agreement, relying on the force of arms plus relations (diplomacy) and Jordan to reach a peace agreement, and these have reached the pinnacle of political wisdom. However, we can see that the tug-of-war between the left and the right is only a "cross", and it is difficult to solve the fundamental problem, because the "vertical", or the "cross", which is a link between the top and the bottom, is missing, and exchanging land for peace is as far as human beings can go. The exchange of land for peace is as far as man can go, but the real solution to the gap between Israel and the Arabs, and to man's inherent problem (sinfulness), is Christ.

A linguistic opening and an open ending

The first chapter of this book is entitled Poetry and Politics: The Jewish People's Search for a Home, and "home" is again full of symbols; the spiritual home of the Jews is in the Hebrew language, and the national entity of the Jewish state is the "political" home that the Jews seek. The national entity of the Jewish State is the "political" home of the Jews, and, of course, more importantly, the home of the Jewish faith.

An important element in the first chapter is Ben Yehuda, Eliezer's strong advocate of the "resurrection of the Hebrew language", who, through his own actions, produced a large number of works of Hebrew literature, and is known as the "father of the Hebrew language". He was known as the "Father of Hebrew". Jewish restoration of the first is the cultural identity, and the restoration of the Hebrew language is precisely the most important, the founding of Hebrew schools, reading literature, of course, an important way, such a background, Israel attaches importance to education is logical, the water to the end. China's emphasis on traditional culture is to emphasize Chinese language education and Chinese language learning (of course, the minority's own language is also to be actively inherited, the Chinese language here is a broad expression.)

The author quotes a lot of Hebrew poems, novels, pop song lyrics, and other works in the book. It can be said that language and culture is the dark line of the book, suggesting that the Hebrew language is not extinguished, and that there is no nation in Israel that is immortalized. In his conclusion, the author writes: "It is no accident that Hebrew is mentioned in Israel's Declaration of Independence; the resurrection of this ancient language symbolizes the revival of traditional Jewish life and the Jewish people in the Jewish state, a success that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world." The most direct way for politicians to seek a strategy for governing the country is to write down their ideas; the most direct way for writers to express their feelings is to write poems, novels, and literary works; singers write lyrics and sing songs, and the secular people go to appreciate them and pass them on; it can be said that such a situation is very much like that of China's New Culture Movement, which produced a large number of literary works in the vernacular language, and which was used by pioneers such as Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, and Lu Xun to express their ideas in the vernacular language. Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Lu Xun and other pioneers used the vernacular language to write essays and express their thoughts, just like these great writers and thinkers in Israel. But then again, the Arab world also has great writers and thinkers, and they too have their own works. Making it culturally impossible for the two peoples to merge as well.

The final chapter of the book, titled "The Jewish Revival in the Jewish State," mentions that after the inability to achieve peace through martial arts, the Israelis began to seek the path of civil rule at home, and began to return to Judaism and the traditions of the Jewish people, and from that, to seek the path of governance. It's an open ending, because Israelis have always sought, and it doesn't seem easy to say which path they found.

One interesting detail that the author mentions in this chapter is that both father and son, both professors of Talmudic studies, taught at the same university, and the father's focus on the deeper meanings inherent in the linguistic details of the Talmud, and the son's search for the significance of the Talmud in modern life, resulted in the son's classes being much more popular with the students.

There is no doubt that this detail is not only a microcosm of the transformation of people's thinking in Israel today, but also a microcosm of the transformation of human thinking that occurs under the turbulence of the entire world - under the incessant natural and man-made disasters that lie flat and inwardly curled, and that you can hardly solve the problem by relying on the language of the Bible to achieve at best a The most you can achieve is the "rebirth" of "living again", but only when everyone's life is connected to Christ's salvation can we truly achieve the "rebirth" of "rebuilding life"! The only way to truly achieve the "rebirth" of "rebuilding life" is to connect each person's life with Christ's salvation!