Theocracy in Action: Now With a 100% More Wing-Nuts!!

[evildevil]

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Reject the Diaspora, Threatening to Split World Jewry

A Jew is a Jew is a Jew. Except when he or she is not.

Just ask Joel Chasnoff, a man who immigrated to Israel, joined the army, fought in Lebanon, then discovered the state didn't consider him Jewish.

In 1950, Israel, the Jewish state passed the Law of Return,

Comments

[lifeisnutty]

bills like this make me want to tear my hair out. But we all have extremists. I don't see this being passed.

[taiki]

Unfortunately, in the West, those extremists largely don't have a state sponsorship.

I've noticed in the West it tends to be that moderates are in secular power, whereas in Israel it's the far far far right that does.

[kerrypolka]

Unfortunately, in the West, those extremists largely don't have a state sponsorship.

US...A?

[slurp]

Let's see. In the US, there's never been a president that isn't Christian and doesn't mentioned God in his speeches. In Israel, there has never been a religious prime minister.

[grazie]

We've had a president that wasn't Christian-- his name was Thomas Jefferson. And I'm certain there were others, but they were mostly early presidents.

Unfortunately, if Texas has its way, Thomas Jefferson's being written out of our history.

[lissa2]

"whereas in Israel it's the far far far right that does."
Can you give names of *far far far right* Israelis that are/were in power?

[haruhiko]

Avgidor Lieberman is foreign minister, that's far right enough for the entire world.

[taiki]

I sure hope Sharon and Netanyahu count. if they don't, then disregard, I'm an ass.

[slurp]

Well, I'm not sure if Sharon counts as extreme right wing. At least towards the end, he did several not-very-right-wing things, like go against settlements.

And there are a lot of Netanyahu supporters for economic reasons rather than political.

But they do both kind of count.