ABSTRACT
The national goal is the way in which the subjects of a certain nation contrive their collective jouissance with the aid of national myths. Associating the Golan Heights with sex turns it into such a myth, and the association of the leader who wishes to shatter that myth with sexual betrayal turns him into the father whom, in order to maintain the unity of the horde, it is permitted to kill. Yitzchak Rabin becomes the other, who has gained access to jouissance, thereby threatening the jouissance of the horde, the masses. If one stands on the cliff edge of the Mitzpe Ramon crater, near the town of Mitzpe Ramon, one sees, an astonishing landscape, reminiscent of the moon, that cannot fail to arouse within one a sense of awe and loftiness. The Ramon crater and the town of Mitzpe Ramon lay an abyss almost as deep as the crater itself.
