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Arabs to Join the IDF???
As things come to a boil with Hareidis (ultra Orthodox Jews) being required to enlist into the IDF, there are now calls to draft another large group of Israeli citizens -- the Arabs. Yes, that's right - one of the least known facts outside of Israel, is that Muslim Arabs account for 1 out of every 5 Israeli citizens, not including of course, the Muslims who are artificially classified as "Palestinians." To put things in perspective, the new laws that require Hareidis to join the IDF were crafted with the idea of creating "equality" among Israeli society. Just as Hareidis ...
Posted by NewsGuy   13 comments   Tags: Israeli Politics


Kibbutz - Success Or Failure
I decided, in lieu of the topic of Kibbutzim coming up on another thread, to start a thread especially for the topic of Kibbutzim. The goal of this thread is to discuss whether or not the Kibbutz movement has been a success or failure in terms of their goal (i.e. living a collective, communal lifestyle). I am aware that there are different types of Kibbutzim (from ultra-left to right-wing of the national religious type, from anti-religious to national religious, etc.). That is not what I want to concentrate so much on in this thread. I am more interested in whether...
Posted by Aliyah1995   48 comments   Tags: Religion/Culture


The 'New, New' Middle East is About to Arrive!
For so long, the expression of the "New Middle East" has been used. For the most part, the expression is associated with the hope of the Arabs miraculously overthrowing their dictatorships and undergoing a cultural revolution to create normal democracies and civilized societies. Well, by now, we know that's a pipe dream. The Arab "spring" is no more than a deterioration of Arab society into a chaotic - and dangerous - Islamic mess, which creates a "new, new" Mideast reality. So, what will it look like, and what does it mean for Israel? To Israel's North, Syria is quickly disintegrating into...
Posted by NewsGuy   6 comments   Tags: Israeli-Arab Conflict

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