à propos d'un article dans Haaretz: "Why Israelis should celebrate the New Year"
By Yossi Klein
Published 08:00 27.12.13
("The world celebrates and we stand on the sidelines with our hands in our pockets."
"Holing up and guarding the gates is tiring. A festive meal for 700 shekels does not make up for the great effort expended in protecting the fortress from enemies that want to kill us and from a culture that might bewitch us.")
FOSSIL SONG
if Israel did not guard its gates - then we would all be holing up
again
as a Diasporean Jew, I have seen - I keep seeing - the resonance of Israel in our lives
Israel almost healed the grievously wounded souls of all my family, of all the Jews I know
almost - because we travel with our nightmares
Israel resurrected us - all of us, the socially charming and secretly panicking, the exhausted, the desperately witty, the flashy, the routinely anxious
we could stand upright again and hold high our genetic headaches
we, of the perpetually wandering minds - we had a roof on earth
something like a an echo of Jericho was shivering through our lives
the harried of the world had turned warriors
the Zohar remained a treasure, Schopenhauer a philosophical suspense, but the art of war had come to us
and the art of living was a discovery
yet I understand that Israel has a different gravity, that it has generated a new species of hurried bustling Jews - whom this essay describes as a people of easily bored tourists, balking at all things foreign, their own Jewishness included
here in this old worn out world, we still have a tendency to rush, ecstatically unprotected and bewitched beforehand (enchantés d'avance) into Christian culture - among others
so we of the other worlds, would be fossils?
of course, Israel should be dancing and popping champagne corks on New Year's Eve
and I love Michelangelo
let him who stands dense and gaping in front of a Pieta in Florence and who thinks King Lear is a brand of cereals
let him cast the first stone