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There are frequent discussions about the validity of Anarcho-X vs Anarcho-Y and how some don’t even belong at all. But in practical terms do the dashes actually matter? What I mean is, after government and its monopoly on violence and medium of exchange is abolished, will there be any lever for any group to force everyone else into their ideal dash? Will the An$ be able to force everyone to live a competitive, market based existence that uses their desired medium of exchange? Will the Syndicalists be able to make all laborers etc into syndicates? Isn’t the whole point of Anarchism is that peoples and communities will be able to freely organize themselves into the types of communities they feel are most effective and live that way?

This gentleman is talking about the consistent and increasing Jewish emigration and brain drain experienced in Israel. People are leaving. Many or most for economic reasons. The comments are interesting.

Just the world’s most moral state doing moral things, morally.

This is less of a “vent” than an observation that came to mind while listening to Eichmann in Jerusalem by Arendt. She describes several instances in which German and other Western observers lamented,or even denied, the killing of German Jews. Running through these accounts is the idea that German Jews were fundamentally different from those in the East: sophisticated, cultured, and civilized, unlike the “sloppy animals” they imagined in Poland and beyond.
It struck me that this resembles the way Israel often emphasizes its Western identity, how modern, chic, and cosmopolitan it is, even down to the carefully curated image of attractive IDF soldiers. It functions as a second-order defense: an appeal to implicit biases among Western audiences. Even people who recognize that Palestinians are being treated unjustly may still, at some level, be more inclined to preserve the group they perceive as culturally familiar and “civilized” over those they unconsciously view as the unwashed masses.