Q&A about Israel

Good question, thank you.

I was wondering why Israel, which is the strongest nation-state in the West currently, wasn’t interested in supporting the fight for the preservation of the nation-state model. Since then, Israel started fighting for the nation-state on its own behalf. That’s good. The US has largely abdicated both the nation-state model and its erstwhile world leadership. Somebody else has to do it instead, or we are all screwed.

Smaller, less powerful nations are stepping into the void while the US is still trying to figure out whether to become Rhodesia and how fast.

This is the number one question facing every nation in the world right now. Do we embrace the fully neoliberal model like the one described in the article on South Africa posted in one of the comment threads? Or do we look at it and say, “God, this stinks. Let’s dial it down because this sounds atrocious”?

Instead of palpating the elephant of neoliberalism blindly, we need to step back and look at the big picture.