Kahane was saying Jewish society has never been nor never can be democratic. Prof. Shahak also states this:
'It should not be forgotten that democracy and the rule of law were brought into Judaism from the outside. Before the advent of the moden state, Jewish communities were mostly ruled by rabbis who employed arbitrary and cruel methods as bad as those employed by totalitarian regimes. The dearest wish of the current Jewish fundamentalists is to restore this state of affairs.'
Kahane was one of those fundamentalists.
And:
'In the 1990s, Israeli sociologists and scholars in other academic fields have focused more attention than ever before upon the social effects in Israeli society of Jewish fundamentalists. The overwhelming opinion of these scholars is that the adherents of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel are hostile to democracy. The fundamentalists oppose equality for all citizens, especially non-Jews ... The great majority of religious Jews in Israel, influenced by fundamentalists, share these views to some extent. In a book review published on October 14, 1998, Baruch Kirnrnerling, a distinguished Israeli sociologist, citing evidence from a study conducted by other scholars, commented:
The values of the [Jewish] religion, at least in its Orthodox and nationalistic form that prevails in Israel, cannot be squared with democratic values. No other variable—neither nationality, nor attitudes about security, nor social or economic values, nor ethnic descent and education—so influences the attitudes of [Israeli] Jews against democratic values as does religiosity.'It is clear that fundamentalist antagonism to democratic values, as well as to most aspects of secular culture and life style, is deeply instilled in Israel's religious schools.'
Frank wrote on Mar 1
st, 2023 at 7:17pm:
So muslims should be allowed to be the majority in Israel and outvote the Jews
Why can't Palestinians have their own state, on the land they have lived on for centuries? That would solve the issue.
Oh right, that will never happen because the religious fanatics who effectively rule Israel will not, nay, cannot, give up one square inch of that land - for religious reasons. See the OP again:
"I saw that they took it (the Bible) literally. Furthermore, in one of my conversations with Mr. Ben Gurion he made the remark that, "the Bible is our charter." I began to realize that Zionism is a thinly veiled theocracy.'
You mocked the idea of an empire earlier, saying it's smaller than Tassie, Well, you're forgetting what was said previously, about Greater Israel, i.e. all the land from the "Nile to the Euphrates'. See
The Zionist Plan for The Middle East, posted earlier.
That's way way bigger than Tassie. That's what they want - because they believe that is what was promised to them - the Promised Land. And they will stop at nothing to get it. Even if it means World War.
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