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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (116704)	10/13/2003 9:15:06 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "So the practical effect is that the "secular" Israelis demand workarounds for the stuff that really matters to them, like having the State recognize civil marriages done in Cyprus (about a half an hour trip from Tel Aviv). Which is why all the howls of certain parties saying, "see, they have to LEAVE THE COUNTRY! That proves Israel is a Jewish Fundamentalist state just as bad as Saudi Arabia!" are silly too." The link I provided (see #reply-19394647) showed that the cost of getting married in Cyprus was hundreds of dollars. And that's getting taken right out of the pocket of people who are the poorest part of Israeli society. But the fact is that they do have to "LEAVE THE COUNTRY". Hardly a friendly way to treat mixed religion couples. Like I said before, the reason that the US Southern states no longer have miscegenation laws, along with all the other racist stuff, is that the majority of the US forced them to change. That the 85% of Israel that is "secular" is unable to change their laws is ridiculous, and can hardly be excused any more than a similar failing on the part of an Arab state. The percentage of the US that was racist was a hell of a lot more than 15%, but the majority still got its way here. Israel's basic problem is that too large a percentage of their population, (FAR more than the 15% you suggest are not "secular"), believe that G_d granted them right in perpetuity to an inconvenient small chunk of land. -- Carl

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