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I'm starting to think that David Ben-Gurion's idea of establishing a state that would unite immigrants from the East and the West, from all over the world, religious and secular, simply failed.
Maybe she had no chance of succeeding in the first place? Because it simply doesn't work.
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The model that I knew from my childhood in Kiryat Ata, of shared life between ultra-Orthodox, religious, and secular people, has been crumbling before my eyes in recent times.
The destruction of the home of Chief Justice Noam Solberg was just one (shameful!) symptom of a 'fire of hatred' that some people took the trouble to fan with their ten fingers.
Ben-Gurion knew how to respect the "souls" of a minority, and understood that it was forbidden to step on bleeding warts. The Supreme Court also acted in this way in the first decades of the state's existence.
But today, everything has fallen apart. And the public, frustrated by the daily persecution, is venting its anger on the streets, in complete contrast to Haredi education.
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It's easy to say, "My sons don't participate in these kinds of horrific demonstrations," but that's not reassuring. If there's an ultra-Orthodox person who has reached a point where he's capable of reaching such levels of violence, something is fundamentally broken here. On both sides.
Someone has forgotten what it is like to live together in one tiny Jewish state.
How did anyone - including Supreme Court justices, wise and intelligent people - think that if you throw an ultra-Orthodox person into a military prison, that will send him to the KKM? Haven't they heard that an ultra-Orthodox person is educated from a young age to give up their life so as not to transgress the words of the great men of Israel? Haven't they noticed that thousands of ultra-Orthodox people go to the polls in every election campaign, cast a ballot - after holding their noses, because they have a stomach full of criticism - but do 'whatever they are told'?!
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In this bloody clash between the IDF's need for soldiers (a real need!) and the faith of an entire public - and no matter what your opinion is about their faith and the instructions of the great men of Israel, they don't care about your opinion - blood will eventually be shed.
We all cried. And the state? Gone.
Those who watched the people fighting for the values of democracy, a 'bird of souls' important to many, and understood that they would succeed in defeating us on October 7th, continue to watch us bleed and fight brother against brother - and rub their hands with pleasure.
Someone to whisper in the prime minister's ear that these internal battles must stop? The High Court judges to be the responsible adult? The president of the state? Anyone?
