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TO STRIVE FOR THE CENTER OF THE FLOWER, TO SEARCH FOR THE BUD FROM WHICH IT GREW

TO BE EMBEDDED IN T HE THICK OF THE PETALS, FEEL ING THE CONNECTION OF THE OU

TREACHING VINES, TRAVE LING TO OTH ER SPAC ES, FAR FROM THE CORE. WHAT DOES IT

MEAN TO COME IN FROM TH E OUTSI DE AN D TRY TO SHAPE THE CENTER? WHAT DOES

IT MEA N TO FEEL IN THE CEN TER WH EN OTH ERS WHO I DISAGREE WIT

H ALSO CLAIM TO BE IN THE CENTER? WHO GETS TO DEC

IDE WHAT TH E TRUE CE NTER IS? I HAVE BELIEFS THAT I AM WILL

ING TO DEFEN D AN D AM OP EN T O CHANGE A ND DIALOGUE. CAN AN ALL ENC

OMPAS SING FEELING A ND VA LUES REACH TO T HE MASSES WHEN IT ALIENATES SOME,

DISAGREES WITH SOME. TO GROW FROM THE CENTER, NOT T HE OUTSIDE, TO INFLUENCE

FROM WHAT I WANT AND BELIEVE, NOT T O BE INFLUENCED FROM THE OUTSIDE PRESSINGP

RESSING ON THE VINES ON MY LIFE. IT M IGHT BE EASIER TO UNFURL. BUT I WON’T.

I still believe in the power of revolutionary social change for
Israel and the Jewish people through Socialist-Zionism