The New York Times reports that the State of Israel has now officially made peace with the Beatles.
Again, a small news item sets off a chain of associations in my head leading to Ben Gurion and Spinoza. (On Ben Gurion's participation in the "nationalist rehabilitation of Spinoza," see Daniel Schwartz, "The Spinoza Image in Jewish Culture, 1656-1956," Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 2007).
(I would also guess that more people in Israel today listen to the Beatles than read Spinoza.)
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