Oh,my people.

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  https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yeshayahu_Leibowitz

• Not every “return to Zion” is a religiously significant achievement: one sort of return which may be described in the words of the prophet: “When you returned you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination” (Jeremiah 2:7).

[I read Gideon Levy and weep]

The words of Matthew Arnold in Dover Beach come to mind:

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.