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In honor of yom ha'atzmaut

Yid with Lid has put together a special one time carnival celebrating Israel's 60 years. Broken down into four categories: Israel in my heart, Israeli history, Israel's accomplishments and Israel's challenges he presents some of the best J-bloggers (and others) expressing their feelings over this milestone birthday of the Jewish state. Please give it a read.

And while you're at it, please check out today's Dry Bones.

UPDATE: There are few excellent essays about Zionism that I'd like to call your attention to. One is The end of Zionism? by Yoram Hazony from 1995. (It actually appeared in one of the very first issues of the Weekly Standard.) The other is Charles Krauthammer's At last Zion, also from the Weekly Standard, celebrating Israel's 50th anniversary. Finally there is Martin Peretz's The god that did not fail that is something of an ideological history of Zionism.

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