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Title: | THE SCIENTIFIC PRELUDE TO AN ODE TO ANNAPOLIS | |||
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| Name: | Joseph E . post 2 | | |||
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| City: | Givatayim | State: | Israel | | |
| Doctors need to extrapolate, based on figures from the previous expulsion, the probable rise in cancer diagnoses, heart failure, diabetes, depression, and other medical conditions that will be sparked by the trauma of becoming refugees. Sociologists need to research how many marriages will break up, how many youth will end up on the streets, how many disillusioned citizens will emigrate, and what influence a large and bitter population will have on the wider public. Military analysts will need to calculate the impact on the IDF of desertions, refusal to serve, evasion, maintaining the lowest possible profile and avoiding induction into the officers` corps, loss of motivation, sub-standard performance, and the loss of our qualitative advantage (Will an officer in the reserves want to risk his life to recapture areas that will only be ceded to the enemy yet again?). Psychologists need to measure the drop in national morale after ceding Biblical Israel as a result of an unconditional diplomatic surrender, and once there`s no safe center of the country any more to escape to when the katyushas fall. They must also investigate the effects on the society of massive emigration, civil disorder, contempt for the law, and public disillusion and hopelessness. Historians and philosophers need to research how actuating the "vision" of giving Biblical Israel to the enemy will influence the national ethos and how will the destruction of dozens of communities affect the Zionist value of Settling the Land. Demographers need to predict how extinguishing the Zionist ethos will dry up aliyah and how the ability to attract new immigrants will be harmed by turning Israel into a midget country that can no longer be a `safe haven` to Jews once its every house will be targeted by the enemy. How will the potential immigrant pool view a bitter land, hounded by pangs of conscience and mutual accusations, eaten up by internal strife and hatred? Political scientists need to research the unraveling of Israel`s democracy in a process similar to the degeneration of the Weimar Republic after Germany`s defeat in the First World War: weak government, civil disturbances, contempt for authority, a polarization of society into hostile camps, the rise of extremists, the corruption of politics, the bureaucracy, the legal system, and the entire society. They will need to determine the survival prospects of a sub-independent state that has lost the ideological and social unity that in the past gave it such resilience and strength. Economists will also need to look at the future prospects of a national economy in an atmosphere of demoralization. Investors invest on the basis of confidence (credit comes from the Latin credo -- I trust), and who can have trust in a country whose actions testify to a total lack of self-confidence?) When all these experts have finished their research, the poets can take up their muse and write the song about the poor dove, born with a black right wing, who tore it off in furious anger, wanting to rid herself of this hated limb. But when she finally succeeded in severing it from herself completely, she fell to the earth and died. |
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