Some writers regard unconverted Arabs being granted “Israeli” citizenship an absurdity.
They complain when the “news” refers to “Israelis” harmed in an accident, without troubling to inform us whether or not they are Jewish.
And they are shocked when state media frame matters about whether or not “Israelis among wounded in California synagogue shooting that killed one”, instead of focusing on the murder of Jews (how many of those killed by the Germans were Zionist?!).
They are shaken and dismayed: Is this a Jewish state, or a cosmopolitan state?!
Nu-nu. So, what else is new?
Contra Meir Kahane, the impossible contradiction in the Israeli declaration of independence is not the words “Jewish” and “democratic“, but “Jewish” and “State“! Statehood is not Jewish, and cannot be made Jewish. So, it’s good the pretense is fading, but bad this is used as a weapon against Jewish identity.
Let’s entirely separate Religion and State, and then oxygen and state.
Humans have ordinal commonalities of varying strengths, to be treated in descending order. Unlike “Tov shachen karov me’ach rachok“, State borders are forcibly chosen and stressed, slashing through voluntary lines of kinship: religious, familial, climate, business, etc.
See the following quote from Rabbi Yitzchak Breuer:
