You said: "... what is wrong with an Israel being dominated by religious Jews?"...

Submitted by Ynnatchkah (United States), Jan 3, 2008 at 02:54

Sure, Mr. McGinley.

"...what is wrong with an Israel being dominated by religious Jews?"...

Sure...If these religious Jews are represented by Moshe Feiglin or an off shore of Kahane, or even those in the former Gush Katif, no problem.

The problem are those religious Jews, who in my understanding, intrinsically put down non religious, when they give extra cash to every single child the religious ones have to keep them - at a cost of the tax payer regular Israeli & when these religious Jews "understand" that only non religious should go to the Tzavah, as if they are a minor human being, & when these religious think that their children should not engage in professions of this world J , studying Torah for an entire life, at a cost of the secular ones, as if the secular ones are entitle to be their providers, and why not to say a kind of slave to the religious ones' will, as if these religious are "La Creme de la Creme en Israel".

That's not only a huge Chutzpah, but also (I do not want to use the right word b/c it sounds ugly) so I'll replace by let's say: social discernment.

No Early Mercantilism either, with the religious ones taking over the economics fields.

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