Marco Villa

Here’s something for cognitive dissonance: Liberal American Jews whom are zealous about enforcing the separation of church and state in the United States simultaneously champion and cheer not only the religious framework of the Jewish state of Israel but are indifferent or at least choose not to concern themselves with the rising religious right in Israel.

American Jews fight the Christian Right here while being apologetic about the Jewish Orthodox Right in Israel.

Here are a few case examples that if you were to switch the persons from Jews to Christians and the country from Israel to the United States would cause an uproar among groups like the Anti-Defamation League but when it happens in Israel, silence is the response from such groups (if not support):

Intel will not employ Jewish workers on Saturday shifts in its Jerusalem plant. The chip-maker has suggested in a new compromise proposal. The move comes after large crowds of ultra-Orthodox protesters attacked the plant on Saturday, in protest of it continuing operations on Shabbat. The plant, in the Har Hotzvim industrial area in Jerusalem, employs some 150 workers.

Israeli police have arrested a Jewish woman for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Police said wearing the shawl - known as a tallit - was a violation of a High Court ruling that a dress code must by abided by at the Jewish holy site.

Female teachers say they were told the main entrance is not safe, but they believe the real reason is pressures exerted by ultra-Orthodox elements.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef came out on Saturday night against the feminist lineup at the Western Wall and called for the condemnation of its members. According to him, the movement is made up of “stupid” women who do not act “for Heaven’s sake,” but merely because “they want equality.”

Why is this? Simply because for many American Jews Israel is a fantasy land. They refuse to see the country through anything but rose-colored windows. It is idealized and beyond criticism. And whenever inconvenient facts arisen then the response is to shut down the critic as biased or anti-Semitic, and deny the reality.

The irony is that they have presented a mythical Israel as some liberal bastion and attacking the Arab-Muslim world as backward and a hotbed of theocracy and religious fanaticism when, in fact, no nation has moved more toward religious law in recent years than the state of Israel. No nation now boosts a more active and board religious fundamentalist population than Israel. The ultra-Orthodox are now a feature of every Israeli government, are slowly taking over the IDF (many soldiers now refuse to obey orders due to a view that their religious duty precedes their national obligation), and slowly imposed religious dictated on secular Israelis. The irony. And American liberal Jews are still blind to this transformation and reality. This is about tribal-support in the face of human rights of Palestinians and even the human rights of secular Israeli Jews.

Maybe the words of Israel’s Justice Minister will awake them:

Justice Minister Yaakov Ne’eman said Tuesday that the law of Torah should be adopted in Israel.

I hope Israel goes down this path, it will only make it more repulsive and less popular.

And can imagine what American Jews would say - and rightly - if an American Attorney General called for the adoption of Christian law?

And, mind you, no Arab Justice official has called for Islamic law. The irony and the hypocrisy.

Every Zionist American Jew is a hypocrite not only for their support of a ethnic state that oppresses the native Palestinians - Muslims and Christians - but hypocrites even more because they support and apologize for a religious state. They whine in America about a 10 Commandments poster in a court house that affects nobody and nobody notices, they preach extreme secularism in America, but then hold fund-raisers for Torah law in Israel or “Hebrew Land” since they refuse to accept even those Palestinian-Israeli citizens as equal simply because they have no Jewish past.

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Source: http://marcovilla.instablogs.com/entry/israeli-justice-minister-seeks-to-impose-torah-law/