Yedioth Ahronoth – Adapted

In May 1998, the fiftieth year of Israel, was the supplement title about Israel in the British newspaper, The Economist. The headline stated that the mood of the Israelis during the fiftieth year celebrations was deteriorating, the cracks in society were deep, the Palestinian resistance operations continued, and Zionism was weakened and seeking its path.

Other publications were more dubious. The article “Will Israel Survive?” appeared in Newsweek magazine in 2002. How and when it would be possible to replace the Zionist Israeli entity with a bi-national one was extensively discussed in The New York Review of Books magazine in October 2003.

Both Zionism and Israel are still in existence. Zionism is still flourishing, active, and evolving. The Declaration of Independence, the cornerstone of Israeli Zionism, is called for adoption as the entity's democratic and Zionist constitution. This happens during large-scale protests against judicial reform and in support of democracy, with hundreds of thousands of Israeli flags flying.