There are several Israeli terrorist organizations that will probably continue attacking the Palestinians.
Who?
but there is no denying the FACT that individuals on both sides are continuing to attack the other side,
There are the West Bank settlements. An exercise in total stupidity by the Israeli gov't that simply invited retaliation.
Hmmmmm. A bit more complicated than just that, I'm afraid.
There is also no denying the FACT that the Israeli government does not treat Israeli Arabs fairly and equally.
Eh? My understanding is that they have full citizenship rights.
Jewish women are legally banned from praying at the Wailing Wall* by the supreme court of Israel.
Apparently, the ultra-orthodox (if it was Muslim it would probably be labeled fundamentalist) creed is that women are not allowed at the most holiest of holy sites to pray. They are allowed to pray nearby, but they must do so silently and they aren't supposed to read from the Torah, blow the Shofar, or wear a prayer shawl because those are for men only.
What makes this "separate but equal" praying thing even worse, is that it is being publicized as for the women's safety. Apparently, women who have attempted to pray at the main site while wearing prayer shawls and reading from the Torah have been the victims of violence from ultra-orthodox worshippers. A woman praying from the Torah is a sin, but peppering her with rocks and brick fragments is orthodox?
So, now the government has a year to put up a temple at the nearby Robinson's Arch or the women will be permitted to pray at the central site.
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women are permitted to learn the Torah. However, they aren't permitted to read from it aloud. This would imply that they were teaching from it, and that is forbidden.
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They don'y just pick on Arabs.
So why should we get involved on their side?
I'm not advocating that we should. I think an ideal solution would be for the US simply to walk away and let them shoot it out. That isn't going to happen, though, because of US domestic politics. |
