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| …Likewise Barkat and secular Israelis are bothered by the growing body of observant Jews in Jerusalem, a city created thousands of years ago not on a sea coast, not on a river, not on land rich in natural wealth, but a city meant to serve a temple. The whole purpose of Jerusalem is to be a holy city, but Mayor Barkat and Israel’s Enlightened don’t like that. They want Jerusalem to be as non-Jewish as Tel-Aviv or Haifa, nicknamed in the 1930s the “Red City” for the political dominance of the hard Left. On Shabbos in Haifa since 1948 there have been bus lines in operation.
Like the radical feminists who cannot tolerate Orthodox Jewish practice, so the Enlightened want to dejudaize Jerusalem. In this they are sort of like the Muslims who cannot tolerate the existence of our little island of a state in the vast sea of Middle Eastern Muslim states… |
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