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wombatwoody wrote on Mar 6 th, 2023 at 11:38pm: freediver wrote on Mar 4 th, 2023 at 9:35pm: wombatwoody wrote on Mar 4 th, 2023 at 9:17pm: freediver wrote on Mar 3 rd, 2023 at 7:15am: wombatwoody wrote on Mar 2 nd, 2023 at 10:34pm: freediver wrote on Mar 1 st, 2023 at 7:17pm: wombatwoody wrote on Mar 1 st, 2023 at 6:28pm: freediver wrote on Mar 1 st, 2023 at 7:01am: You realise he is not actually saying that Israel isn't a democracy, right? What part of, Western democracy as we know it is incompatible with Zionism do you not understand? Or is this just your silly game again? I understand it. It is a different statement with a different meaning. What kind of democracy violates the rights of those who wish to be secular? 'One of the major successes of Israeli theopolitics has been the institutionalization of the Orthodox rabbinate within the state. The Orthodox rabbinate in Israel has been established as a monopoly—neither Reform nor Conservative rabbinic ordinations are recognized—and it is, in part, supported by the state. This monopoly and state support, in conjunction with the coercive tactics of the religious parties in the Knesset, has given the Orthodox rabbinate a good deal of power. It uses this power to further the observance of Orthodox norms, often violating the civil rights of the nonobservant Israeli.' Norman L. Zucker, The Establishment of the Orthodox Rabbinate in Israel Whose rights were violated? And how do you make the idiotic leap from there to "not a democracy"? Do I need to get out the dictionary for you? You really don't know much about Israel, do you? So tell me, oh Oracle. I will. But first, do you really think that a country where a religious body dictates how significant events in one's life should or should not be conducted, when that citizen wants no religious interference whatsoever in daily life, can be called a democracy? "Ben-Gurion’s historical compromise with the Orthodox parties has turned out to be a catastrophe. Israel, to this day, doesn’t have a constitution; the Rabbinate is involved in the lives of countless people who don’t want anything to do with it, and the Orthodox stream in Judaism (which is a minority in Jewry worldwide) has a monopoly that aggravates and alienates millions of Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. " - Why Israel Must Become A Secular State: A Thought For Yom Kippur 5770, Haaretz, By Carlo Strenger, Sep. 27th 2009 Or do you naively think Israel is a democracy simply because elections are held? So you will one day explain what your gibberish means, but first, here's some more gibberish?
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