The joy of ethnic identity

[Conservationist]

The average salary of graduates in my field is 12 (!) times what it is in Israel, the professional challenge is much greater, and my circle of friends will continue to expend.
 
So why will I be returning to Israel? It’s precisely the stay here that made me realize that we have no other place except our country. I now understand that Israel is the only place in the world where I’ll truly feel at home. I understand that despite my reserve service and all the wars, I nonetheless feel the safest in Israel. I realize that Israel is the only place where my identity as a Jew won’t stop me from at least dreaming to reach as far as possible.
 
I also understand that it’s important for me to take part in these historical moments where the Jewish people returned to its homeland after 2,000 years of exile. Mostly, my stay here made me realize that in the era of human rights the Jewish people has no future without tiny Israel.

Quality of life is measured first and foremost by the meaning of the life you live and is derived from the sense of belonging to the people around you, the wholeness of your identity, and the knowledge that by living in our state you are part of something bigger; bigger than you, and sometimes bigger than logic.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4052836,00.html

This guy is the archetypal anti-modern. Instead of wanting pure individualism, he wants a meaningful context to his individual life. That puts him ahead of the dummies who think that buying the right combination of things will make them whole.

[scourge]

What's interesting is finding views like this percolating up into all sorts of media sources today. Ten or twenty years ago? Dismissed in a flurry of hysteria as neo-nazi militia hate activity or whatever and never published.

The left has little sense of restraint or proportion and has ineptly overplayed its hand. The pendulum will soon slice back again to where many posited and normative elements of liberalism taken for granted today are variously dismissed, shunned and outright banned.