Israel lost it during the Covid crisis. A country renown for leading the world in medicine, science, technology advances responded to Covid in an almost inexplicable way.
My theory was Israel’s irrational response was a reflexive reaction to historical trauma. The dehumanization of the Jews under the Nazi regime began with disease. Many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy. Jews were depicted as superspreaders of disease and allowed the Nazis to justify punitive measures against the Jewish population leading up to the Holocaust.
In any event, Israel’s over reaction was enormously disappointing and wrong headed.
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