…Bibi, Bogie and Boojie. The friction between the first two Bibi and Bogie has been a top story for like a week now over Yair Golan’s shocking insinuation that some Israelis were acting like proto-Nazis toward the Ancient Palestinians and the country had to wake up.

And as I suggested before, what is in play is the community of collectivists in the kibbutzim and moshavim that has dominated the IDF since Day One. There is a groupthink in the IDF as in other affinity groups. And as I suggested, what we heard from Yair Golan was the world-view of these post-religious Israelis of Jewish attraction whose self-definition is such it leads them to perceive the Holocaust their way, as if it could happen to any people. Any people could become Nazis given the same “political processes,” even Jews in their animosity to what Israeli icon Moshe Dayan might have called the “victims of Zionism.” Moshe Dayan and his sabra generation, the heroes of Leon Uris’ historical romance Exodus insisted they were Israelis and not Jews. I almost married an Israeli who was raised in a communist family and insisted she was an Israeli, not a Jew. The whole purpose of Israel for her and her family was to leave the Jews behind, those wimps who walked like sheep into the gas chambers…