This is what a Zionist looks like

Kol hakavod to Zak Meyers who has written the most beautiful piece of prose-verging-on-poetry that I have read in many, many years.

It's a Letter to [His] Unborn Child.

 

.... When they refuse to treat you, a Jew, as an ordinary person, you shall become extraordinary. When they treat you, an Israeli, as the exception to the rule, you shall become exceptional. Where I shed the rags of the Diaspora, you will wear the robe of kings. Where I was “the return,” you are “the renaissance.” צהייל will be emblazoned on your chest, where there was once a star. You will cry at the sight of Zion, where we once cried to return. You will speak the tongue of the prophets, rather than the language of the exile. (Your heroes will be legends from the land, rather than stars from the screen.) You, my child, will be the first of our line to be born in the Land of our Fathers....

 

 

Read it ALL. 

Comments

[Elan]

An unbelievably eloquent and moving letter, especially the paragraph that follows the one you quoted.

[Yael]

You could pull an eloquent and moving excerpt ANYWHERE in this. Incredible.