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Sir, - Ida Nudel's analysis of the non-Jewish nature of what was meant to be the Jewish state, evokes sympathy and breaks one's heart ("What Israel can learn from Muhammad Yunus," October 24). It seems only the president of Iran and the leader of Hizbullah recognize that Israel i...

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Published inThe Jerusalem post
Main Author Jacob Chinitz, Lowell Blackman, Muriel Vered, Mitchell Barnett, Moshe Raab, M. U. Milunsky
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 25.10.2006
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Nudel, Ida
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Summary:Sir, - Ida Nudel's analysis of the non-Jewish nature of what was meant to be the Jewish state, evokes sympathy and breaks one's heart ("What Israel can learn from Muhammad Yunus," October 24). It seems only the president of Iran and the leader of Hizbullah recognize that Israel is a Jewish state. As Nudel points out, our media, sophisticated humanistic academia even our government - in removing the word "Jew" from identity papers - and the retired president of our Supreme Court, who once said he preferred a state that was democratic but not Jewish to one that was Jewish but not democratic, prefer Israel to be non-Jewish. On the other hand, they were so bamboozled by "democracy" that they did not dare to equate Israeli citizenship with Jewish identity. In the founding document of 1948, after citing the prophets, the Rock of Israel, Jewish history and the Holocaust, they welcomed with open arms the non-Jewish residents of the new state into full, equal citizenship. This limitless reaching out in the name of democracy did not and still does not prevent our enemies from labelling us apartheid, racist, theocratic, etc.