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The ultimate hypocrisy that many Americans and Israelis show is when they criticize the religious fanaticism of others. Moreover, it is unthinkable to them to find a Muslim who follows his/her religion properly, they deem that a threat to the whole of civilization. Yet, the truth shows they are the religious fanatics and want the rest of us to follow their lead no matter how unjust and brutal their actions are.
Israel’s population menaced by religious wars
Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Press TV
Uncalled-for attempts by Israeli religious extremists to influence others shrink the entity’s population as the secular flee the alleged ideological inroads.
The mass departures reduce the number of the Israeli residents of the occupied territories by ‘thousands’ each year, Russia Today said on Thursday, reporting on the increasing frictions between the two ends of the demographic spectrum.
“They are making rules every day. New rules and they want you to be like everybody else,” said a formerly religious Jew Eyal Akerman.
The secular and non-orthodox comprise 84% of the 7-million-strong Israeli population currently residing in the occupied territories.
Secular segments of the population accuse the ultra-orthodox Jews, known as Haredis, of deliberately seeking residence in Jerusalem [al-Quds] and Tel Aviv where the non-religious prevail.
“We have been the majority here for 45 years. … I’m sorry, but we’re not going to allow this to continue,” an Israeli resident, David Shulman, was quoted by Los Angeles Times as saying earlier in the month.
The daily likened the apparent war of attrition by the extremists to the lead-up to the occupying regime’s annexation of the West Bank.
Sabbaths regularly witness skirmishes between secular residents and the Haredis which lead to police intervention. In one case the residents confronted them as they started spreading their ideas to the local youths under the guise of celebrating religious occasions.
“The more extreme they’ve become, the more extreme the population is becoming,” Shulman added.
The American-Israel Demographic Research Group’s estimate showed that, enlarging rapidly, the ultra-Orthodox community was expected to grow from 16% of the population to 23% by 2025, the paper said.
Tensions are snowballing among the religious as well. The Russian agency aired pictures caught on camera in a Jerusalem synagogue where non-Haredi rabbi Mordechai Osher’s extremist coreligionists battered, “handcuffed me and hit me until I bled.” The attackers had reportedly started out to seize non-Haredi synagogues.
“I am surprised this is happening. The people will always act in a way they think is right so maybe I am not so surprised. I hope my experience is a lesson for people that behaving in this way is not the right choice,” said Osher, who is to take the matter to court.
Rabbi Avraham Sutton, though, dismissed the idea of a religious conflict, and said, “In Israel, the secular, which is again an agenda directed by European and American interests, is to uproot the Jewish people from their heritage to dissociate the Jewish youth from any historical context.”
Jews ‘don’t like Israel like evangelicals do’
Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Press TV
Former US presidential nominee Mike Huckabee says Israel is much better favored by the American evangelicals than by the American Jewish community.
“Maybe one of the hard things is to convince some of our Jewish friends that Evangelicals are the best friends they’ve got – because I think generally, that’s the case,” Huckabee said in the epilogue to a three-day visit to Israel.
“Evangelicals are so much more supportive of Israel than the American Jewish community,” he added in an interview with the CBN News.
He said that the evangelical Christians were, unlike Jews, consistently supportive of the Israeli territorial assertions.
“I don’t find that kind of dichotomy generally within the Evangelical community…. It’s pretty adamant: There ought to be one city. It ought to be a Jewish state. And it ought to be secure.”
Some evangelical churches fully support the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands and even consider the Israeli massacres in the West Bank and Jerusalem [al-Quds], which have been internationally denounced as ethnic cleansing, to be a biblical imperative.
Most evangelicals in the US voted for the pastor and former Arkansas Governor during his 2008 Republican presidential candidacy. Fifty five percent of the American population is reported to be Evangelical Christians
During his visit to Israel, Huckabee reiterated his longtime Zionist affiliations by asserting that Jerusalem had to be the eternal united capital of Israel.
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