Yosef & His Brothers / The National Religious & the Left
A comparison of the relationship between the left-wing and the Jewish population of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), and the first ten sons of the Patriarch Yaakov and their young brother Yosef.
Relations between Israel's left and the settler community seem to mirror the sort of relations that existed between Joseph and his brothers. The settlers, like Joseph, dream messianic dreams about the redemption of Israel; the brothers are spiteful.
In this week's Torah portion we encounter Jacob's offspring, those towering personalities that make up Israel's Twelve Tribes, the pillars upon which the entire House of Israel rests.