The situation is different for a diaspora, but somewhat similar. The largest Hungarian newspaper in America Szabadság wrote an introduction to a directory of noteworthy American-Hungarians, celebrating as a fait accompli the absorption of its readership into the great American Mass. What did we give up and what did we get? Is it what we expected? Was it inevitable? Can I resurrect some kind of Hungarian-ness for me and my children? A reverse soft-genocide.
Maybe some of the words that you are looking for, have already been written decades ago by Amos Oz in a seminal essay in his book "In the Land of Israel". Here's an Arab source reprinting that essay, representing it as if it had been an interview with Ariel Sharon. Which it was not. It was just Amos expertly materializing into words the weltanschauung floating in the air. Floating among some Israelis whom Amos did not see eye-to-eye with, but he was still able to expertly capture on paper.
The "C" from this transcription is a "צ" in the original. Meaning, not the "c" of "city" or "clan", more like the "tz" of "tzar". Even though "צ" is not literally Sharon, the essay is fascinating, brutal, timeless, and more than worth a read. May we never arrive to such a situation in our neighbourhood.
Apropos Aaron Sorkin: They still say that Jed Bartlet was the best president America ever had.
The situation is different for a diaspora, but somewhat similar. The largest Hungarian newspaper in America Szabadság wrote an introduction to a directory of noteworthy American-Hungarians, celebrating as a fait accompli the absorption of its readership into the great American Mass. What did we give up and what did we get? Is it what we expected? Was it inevitable? Can I resurrect some kind of Hungarian-ness for me and my children? A reverse soft-genocide.
This IMO is the best analysis of the larger implications in the current thing-conflict:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1710954596904869959.html
Maybe some of the words that you are looking for, have already been written decades ago by Amos Oz in a seminal essay in his book "In the Land of Israel". Here's an Arab source reprinting that essay, representing it as if it had been an interview with Ariel Sharon. Which it was not. It was just Amos expertly materializing into words the weltanschauung floating in the air. Floating among some Israelis whom Amos did not see eye-to-eye with, but he was still able to expertly capture on paper.
The "C" from this transcription is a "צ" in the original. Meaning, not the "c" of "city" or "clan", more like the "tz" of "tzar". Even though "צ" is not literally Sharon, the essay is fascinating, brutal, timeless, and more than worth a read. May we never arrive to such a situation in our neighbourhood.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/219858