I never knew how to answer the question that the Israelis I know often ask, “Do you expect us to relinquish the Wall to the Palestinians?”
I now know the answer:
Israeli police on Thursday detained five women at a Jerusalem holy site for performing religious rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men. . . The Western Wall, the only remaining part of the biblical Temple compound, is the holiest site where Jews can pray. It is currently divided into men’s and women’s sections. Orthodox rabbis, who control Israel’s religious institutions, oppose mixed-gender prayers. In recent months, female worshippers have been detained at the site for wearing religious garments and leading prayers.
Yes, I’d rather the Wall were relinquished or even razed to the ground than to see it befouled by this atrocious woman-hatred. Shame on you, fellow Jews. Shame on you.
If this becomes even more wide-spread, the only reason to support Israel will evaporate.
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Relinquishing the wall will only put another group of woman haters in charge of it. Many religions always have an interpretation that provides a safe haven for their type. I am atheist because of my lack of belief in the existence of any gods, I am anti-theist because it frequently leads to this kind of behaviour and worse.
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Israel claims the US should help them because they are more civilized than anybody else in the area. That argument is now becoming moot.
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This entire thing has been going on for years and years, there isn’t any change in Israel.
And the conclusion “argument is now becoming moot”, while comparing Syria or Egypt with Israel, is not correct. Look at this f.e.:
Egypt’s Coptic Church unleashed one of its strongest criticisms ever of the government after back-to-back deadly attacks on Copts that the pope insists were incited by harsh anti-Christian rhetoric.
http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-copts-lash-governments-anti-christian-rhetoric-180533925.html
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I was talking about sexism, not the issues people from other religions might face.
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In Jerusalem, Jewish women are afraid to go outside without observing Tzniut.
In Tel Aviv – a city barely 30 miles away – they sunbathe in bikinis. Misogyny in Israel is very inconsistent and very very strange.
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// Misogyny in Israel is very inconsistent and very very strange.
It is strange only if you don’t live in Israel. In Jerusalem most of population is *extremely* religious (both Jews and Muslim), while Tel Aviv is the commercial, cultural and secular center of the country. Extremely religious want to live in their community according to their rules and react badly to anybody breaking them (like opening a not kasher place, or a woman in shorts). The two cities are The opposites inside Israel in many ways, including the different populations in each.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/13/barbara-boxer-aipac-israel-discrimination
Love it when people say Israel is a ‘progressive’ country.
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It’s really comforting to see at least one country to give the US a taste of its own medicine. The US has been refusing entrance to people for inexplicable reasons and completely irrespective of any international accords. If it’s ok for US customs to stop me, a citizen of Canada, for a 2-hour-long and humiliating discussion of my origins, income and everything else, if it’s OK for US customs to throw things in my face (physically) and destroy my documents just for fun, let some US citizens experience something of this kind. Maybe then the Americans will stop treating everybody who doesn’t have a US passport like garbage!
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Brazil way ahead of the game here. They made a rule to collect only Americans’ fingerprints at immigration after the US started collecting everyone’s fingerprints after 9-11.
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Cool! Finally, somebody is not chickening out in fear of the US!
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Btw, it’s not about Israel giving the US a ‘taste of its own medicine’. The intention is to discriminate based on ethnicity, not nationality.
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Just like the US discriminates against citizens of other countries based on ethnicity. Canadian citizens called Gonzalez, Al Badri and Ivanova are not treated the same way at the US border as Canadian citizens called O’Brien and Green.
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