It's all in the Bible and the Fabricated Identities

The deep historical narrative and psychological trap behind the West's serf mentality where Israel is concerned

As I sit down to write my final essay for 2024, I’m thinking about what I’ve been through this year both biographically and in terms of the ideas and big-picture connections it has inspired.

I left Israel this summer, months, and maybe years after I began feeling I could hardly breathe in it. Since maybe 2014, I gradually became smothered with sadness a…