That world, however, will be one in which Israel can no longer count on feelings of Holocaust guilt to influence major powers. It is a world in which monotheistic rivalries will be diluted in an ocean of polytheist faiths, and in which Israel will be able to depend only on its comparative merits in the eyes of cynical, realistic actors who will judge it solely on the basis of their own national interests.
然而这么一个世界意味着以色列无法再利用对纳粹大屠杀的愧疚感来影响那些主要势力。那是一个一神论宗教之间的敌意逐渐被多元信仰的汪洋大海所稀释的世界，而在那些仅仅以自身国家利益作为评判标准的，多疑且现实的大国眼中，以色列只能依靠其比较竞争优势来赢得青睐。