Shared Values: Israeli-American-Texan, Israeli-Taliban, their Mahdi………..
“Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the Emmanuel elementary school, which his daughter attends, practices de facto ethnic segregation by separating students along religious lines. Mr. Kyrbus and 35 other parents went to jail rather than comply with what they considered religious coercion by the secular court. More than 100,000 ultra-Orthodox supporters poured into the streets of Jerusalem in June to demonstrate on Krybus's behalf, aggravating Israel's religious-secular rift. Israel's mainstream press and secular public were outraged by what they saw as a case of brazen defiance of the legal system's principle of equality. Israel's ultra-Orthodox – known in Hebrew as Haredi, or God-fearing – saw a secular government meddling in the spiritual life of their children. "It was worth it to suffer. We were there for ideological reasons. The rabbis told us what to do,"……. Haredi and secular Israel are on a "collision course," says Yossi Klein Halevi, a fellow at the nonpartisan Shalom Hartman institute in Jerusalem, which focuses on Jewish affairs……...”
The Haredi said: “We were there for ideological reasons. The
It says they are growing much faster than the average Israeli population (religious fanatics everywhere do, apparently they all like to beget and begat). And they do not believe in Zionism or an Israeli state, not until someone or another shows up: I think maybe they mean not until the Mahdi (theirs not ours) returns. They are apparently a ticking population time-bomb: what if they become a plurality, even a majority, of the population? With an existential threat looming, would their rabbis have an epiphany and backtrack?
At least in the US, the religious kooks are mostly limited to certain fly-over states with small populations (Texas is an exception, but Texas has been promising to secede anyway, a promise it has failed to keep so far).
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