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To: bentway who wrote (227633)4/18/2007 10:03:09 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Israel is an ethnic state and are committed to keeping it israeli. What is your view of illegal immigrants in the US? Dont the folks who oppose them want the US to remain ethnically pure--more white, english speaking, less cheap labor from outside, etc. If i remember you correctly thats your position here. You are confusing religion with ethnicity. The percentage of religious jews to secular ones in israel is about the same as evangelists to the rest of the US population for example. Do we have a theocratic state? How do you feel about muslims emigrating here?



To: bentway who wrote (227633)4/18/2007 10:12:37 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I'm saying that the government stacks the deck so that Jews will always be the majority in Israel, a fact Nadine acknowledges. So they have a "safe" homeland, by her lights, but that hardly makes it an open democracy - it makes it a theocratic democracy.

In a theocracy the religious leadership controls the government. Since this is not the case Israel is not a theocracy, and maintaining a majority Jewish population doesn't make it a theocracy.


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