“It is good to die for your country" is a quote attributed to the one armed Jewish veteran of the Russo-Japanese war, Joseph Trumpeldor who died fighting on the battlefields of pre-state Israel. The man never lived to see the state established and yet he is mythologized among the early generations of Zionist founding fathers.
Why bring up Trumpeldor?
Many young Western Jews today struggle with the zeitgeist that sees Israel and Zionism as evil, colonialist, apartheid, racist, fill in your favorite word--which…