Israel

[the_glyph]

Where I grew up there was a fairly large Jewish community. It wasn't quite Golders Green and definitely wasn't orthodox. When we were at school it wa just one of those things that you knew about people. We all went to Joanna's bat mitzvah and understood that the nine candles in the window were for Hanukkah not Christmas

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[saturdays_boy]

> but I'm not so sure about Israelis

i read a book a few years ago written by an Israeli journalist that described the political system in Israel and the peace campaigning that was internal to Israel but failed to effect government policies. It led me to believe that in the main the horrors of the government aren't reflected in the more sensible and pragmatic view of the population as a whole and that overall, they have more to do with the way the election system results in control of policy by 'hard liners' of various persuasions who the main party needs to keep the government together. of course, it could all be outdated now, but somehow i suspect (or is that hope?) not.

[the_glyph]

Although the longer the battles go on the more radicalised everyone will become. It's easy to have perspective from here. I'm not sure how long I would preserve it if someone were lobbing bombs at me, whoever they were.

[saturdays_boy]

though alot of Israel is unnaffected.