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To: Ilaine who wrote (120466)11/26/2003 12:36:45 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Israel is not the only country where the tension between religious and secular control of the state is troubling, but it certainly has peculiar problems due to religious influence on the state that no other "Western" democracy has

It sounds like you're thinking of Judaism purely as a religion, by analogy with Catholicism. That's not the way Judaism works, since unlike Catholicism, it's an ethnically based religion. The strain on Israel is not between being a democracy and a theocracy. There is only about 15% potential support for a theocracy, among the ultra-Orthodox, which in practice means no support, the state just throws them sops depending on their current political strength. The real strain is between being a Jewish state, i.e. a state for the Jewish people, and a democracy.
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