How vital to Israel’s long-range health was Hazony’s earlier campaign
Often the consequences of our actions are not clear for many years, even decades. Take the one-man campaign that Dr. Yoram Hazony waged against the introduction of a new history textbook, A World of Changes, into the Israeli educational system in 2000.
Hazony fought his battle at a time of low national morale in Israel. Daniel Pipes wrote ominously at the time in Commentary that despite Israel’s overwhelming military and economic superiority over her enemies, “Again and again, the record of history shows that victory goes not to the side with the greater firepower but to the side with greater determination.”
Hazony understood that if young Israelis were systematically stripped of any pride in the long history of the Jewish People or of any belief in Israel’s national mission, the side with the greater determination would not be Israel.
Hazony chose an American magazine, New Republic, which in those days was both serious and pro-Israel, to launch his attack on Israel’s Education Ministry, thus forcing the Ministry to respond.
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