The movement may have started on legitimate grounds. There were 1/2 million Arabs in Palestine in 1890 in a land that now easily holds 10 million. So there was room for immigrants. But the movement was taken over by militants who have steadily become more aggressive and out of control over the decades. They are abnormally aggressive in everything they do and in my opinion started most of the wars they complain about. And they are incredibly self-righteous and racist.
Believe it or not, the most civilized and sane people in Israel are the ultra-Orthodox. The rest of the country is so obsessed with its military that it can't think straight. It's a kind of religion for them, but not a healthy one. The ultra-Orthodox have a real religion that channels their energies in a more civilized way.
The Zionists want it both ways. They want to claim to be a modern democracy and yet they have a state that is based on religious identity and yet they are not religious. It's all incredibly confused.
Believe it or not, the most civilized and sane people in Israel are the ultra-Orthodox. The rest of the country is so obsessed with its military that it can't think straight. It's a kind of religion for them, but not a healthy one. The ultra-Orthodox have a real religion that channels their energies in a more civilized way.
The Zionists want it both ways. They want to claim to be a modern democracy and yet they have a state that is based on religious identity and yet they are not religious. It's all incredibly confused.
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