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Tel Aviv and Jerusalem represent two centers of gravity in Israel: Tel Aviv is democratic, secular, progressive, and Western, while Jerusalem is religious, conservative, and theocratic.
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Tel Aviv and Jerusalem represent two centers of gravity in Israel: Tel Aviv is democratic, secular, progressive, and Western, while Jerusalem is religious, conservative, and theocratic.
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Jiang says some people in Jerusalem can accept or welcome Tel Aviv's destruction because they see Tel Aviv as the great Satan and want a theocratic Israel.
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Tel Aviv reads David as an imperial, cosmopolitan, creative king, while Jerusalem reads David as the repentant poet-prophet whose sin leads to redemption.
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In Jiang's account of the Jerusalem religious vision, Tel Aviv represents Israel's animal soul and Jerusalem represents its divine soul.
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"...I would say there's... The two major conflict is represented by Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. These are two cities in Israel, and they are..."
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"...And they, again, they hate each other. And the fact that Tel Aviv is getting destroyed right now in this war, people in Jerusalem..."
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"They see David as primarily a poet prophet, and they see David as the exemplar, as the favorite of God, because he redeemed himself..."
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"...God. But it is trapped in the animal soul. Okay? So, Tel Aviv is the animal soul."
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"...animal soul and the divine soul. And so, from their perspective, Tel Aviv represents the animal soul of Israel. Jerusalem represents the divine soul..."
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"...creative. But the fundamental weakness is the division within society where Tel Aviv and Jerusalem don't get along. Okay? So that is the political..."
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"...and this is how it will do so. It also attacked Tel Aviv in response for the assassination of their de facto leader, Ali..."
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"Because Tel Aviv and other cities are getting destroyed. And again, there's really no way for the Israelis to defend themselves against Iranian ballistic..."
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"And Netanyahu's residence was also targeted in Tel Aviv. So that's a really interesting question. How are the Iranians able to target so many..."
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"...This is about 2020, when you have a million people in Tel Aviv calling for the resignation, the impeachment, the jailing of Prime Minister..."
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"...between the animal soul and the divine soul. The... People in Tel Aviv would frame the debate as one between progress and tradition, right?..."
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"...and 2017 was when Donald Trump transferred the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem thus recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and..."
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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