Dear CarolC--I suggest you read the post from Greg F. which immediately preceded mine, and several others before that, and a couple afterward.

Ok. Point taken.


Now maybe you'd actually like to respond directly to the information provided in Mr. Bard's article...or not.

Ok. Since I have your permission to discuss Israel in this thread (I'm sure bobad won't mind since it's you wanting to discuss it), I don't really have an opinion about whether or not Israel is a theocracy. I think there are some legitimate arguments on both sides of that debate. Whether or not it should be a "Jewish state", I do have an opinion about. In order for Israel to be a Jewish state, it has to have a permanent majority, which it cannot do without practicing ethnic cleansing, and it cannot really be said to be a country of all of its people. So I cannot support that, because it privileges one group of people over all other groups. That's supremacism, and I do not support supremacism.