Israel As a Cheap and Tawdry Imitation of Southern California

This is a superb older post, definitely due for a repost. Another great post by Francis Miville. Great unique perspective.

Israel is the theater of Western culture’s ultimate defeat, though only as a theater scene. All Zionist Jews living in Israel don’t live in the disputed land of Israel-Palestine. They live in a TV serial titled “Israel” and have concerns typical of B-series actors and stunt performers.

As soon as they can, after their day job, they take refuge from the local geology, climate, and political narrative in air-conditioned shopping malls to better their careers.

Greater Tel Aviv covers more than half of the country (Negev desert excepted) with a suburbia absolutely identical to Toronto’s (most of its recent architects are indeed Jewish-Canadian); that is to say, one of the worst land-squandering urbanisms of the world.

The semi-desert Palestine of Ottoman rule bloomed not thanks to the kibbutzniks but rather due to the British entrepreneurs in industrial horticulture of Me…