Earlier this week Israel’s friend the United States, led by a man who arguably is Israel’s favorite American President of all time, issued a report that criticized Israel’s religious freedoms. The report was critical of the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate owning civil functions such as marriage, divorce and Jewish burials as well as poor bureaucratic treatment of non-Jewish spouses of Jewish Israeli citizens. It should be an alarm that within a year of America moving her Embassy to Jerusalem and officially recognizing the Israeli Golan as sovereign land, America is raising the alarm.
The dream is to be that shining light amongst the stars for the world to see. The dream is to be a Free, and to be a Fair and a Just nation. We have a long way to go, and if we are to ever get there, we must rise up with one voice and stop dreaming – but work hard to make these lofty goals real. We will never be great until we do and if we do not, the day will come where will no longer have the opportunity and the two-thousand-year struggle will resume. It has happened before and we are proving we have learned nothing from that lesson.
All Israeli citizens are complicit in the racism and bigotry of our justice system. So long as we turn a blind eye and do not question what we are told not to question, so long as we do not push back and demand more from our leaders, so long as we allow these injustices to occur daily, we are all to blame.
srael is in trouble internally, and it is a result of the perceived Right-Left polarization of the electorate. It is almost a crime to be labeled a Leftist, and yet few actually understand what the terms mean. During the past 15 years I have witnessed elections successively deteriorate on quality-of-life issues. Has anyone stopped to ask why no politician is talking about an income tax and fee rate over 50% and a VAT of 17%?
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