Israleft.org brings you excerpts from Rami Elhanan’s Speech at an alternative Memorial Day Ceremony held by Combatants for Peace, held on the Israeli Memorial Day, on Monday, April 19th. The excerpts were edited and translated from Hebrew by @normands, and handed over to us by @notIDFspokesman, who is a great source of information about Israeli [...]
|
|||||
|
On the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, some speak of a bi-national state as the optimal solution. In their vision, they see Israel-Palestine as a sort of Belgium or, to a lesser extent, Canada- a country where Jews and Palestinians co-exist under one democracy and lead their lives together happily and peacefully. Just recently the Palestinian chief [...] While Israel maintains that it is the Jewish state, the majority of the world Jewry doesn’t reside in Israel. Based on 2007 figures, only 41 per cent of world Jewry actually do live in Israel. But Israel’s legitimacy as a self proclaimed nation state, while it should [...] Israel is a highly militarized society. Service in the Israeli Army, aptly named Israel Defence Force, is mandatory in Israel. By law, every 18 years old is drafted; young men are enlisted for a period of three years, young females are obligated to a 2-year period. After their release, they are enlisted for reserve duty, [...] Picture, if you will, a country in which people are forced to be wed and to divorce in religious courts; are unable to marry someone of a different religion; where religious legislation forces a certain weekday as the day of rest and prohibits the opening of most businesses; where state-funded public transportation operates buses in [...] A claim that’s being heard over and over, made by Israeli spokespersons as well as by leaders of the free world, is that Israel has the right to defend itself. Of course, this isn’t true. Israel has an obligation to defend itself, or rather, its citizens and their sovereignty, just like any other country. It’s [...] |
|||||
|
Unless specified otherwise, all the content of this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Israel License. Powered by WordPress & the Atahualpa WP Theme by BytesForAll. Now with Tutorials & Support |
|||||
Say What?