georgephillip
Diamond Member
According to Uri Avnery a distinction between Israelis and Jews would not have been a surprise to anyone living in Israel 50 years ago. Although it apparently surprised a Polish journalist returning to Warsaw after his first visit to the Holy Land:
"'A friend of mine in Warsaw told me about a Polish journalist who visited Israel for the first time. On his return he reported with great excitement: You know what Ive discovered? In Israel, too, there are Jews!'"
Avnery believes confusion about this distinction between Israeli and Jew has sown great evil in today's Israel:
"This distinction between Israelis and Jews would not have surprised any of us 50 years ago.
"Before the foundation of the State of Israel, none of us spoke about a 'Jewish state'.
"In our demonstrations we chanted: 'Free Immigration! Hebrew State!'
In almost all media quotations from those days, there appear the two words 'Hebrew state', almost never 'Jewish state'.
Uri then goes into a fair amount of detail regarding "Torah-shielded parasites" and how they are currently taxing Israel's economy before summing up with this brief paragraph:
"The source of all this evil is, of course, the original sin of the State of Israel: the non-separation between state and religion, based on the non-separation between nation and religion.
"Nothing but a complete separation between the two will save Israel from total domination by the religious mutation."
The Original Sin
"'A friend of mine in Warsaw told me about a Polish journalist who visited Israel for the first time. On his return he reported with great excitement: You know what Ive discovered? In Israel, too, there are Jews!'"
Avnery believes confusion about this distinction between Israeli and Jew has sown great evil in today's Israel:
"This distinction between Israelis and Jews would not have surprised any of us 50 years ago.
"Before the foundation of the State of Israel, none of us spoke about a 'Jewish state'.
"In our demonstrations we chanted: 'Free Immigration! Hebrew State!'
In almost all media quotations from those days, there appear the two words 'Hebrew state', almost never 'Jewish state'.
Uri then goes into a fair amount of detail regarding "Torah-shielded parasites" and how they are currently taxing Israel's economy before summing up with this brief paragraph:
"The source of all this evil is, of course, the original sin of the State of Israel: the non-separation between state and religion, based on the non-separation between nation and religion.
"Nothing but a complete separation between the two will save Israel from total domination by the religious mutation."
The Original Sin