{"id":6957,"date":"2024-02-27T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2024-02-27T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:36:00","slug":"us-and-israel-a-contrast-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/us-and-israel-a-contrast-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Israel: A Contrast in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Politics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israeli and American politics are different.&nbsp;&nbsp;Israel has a parliamentary system of government.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their citizens vote for Knesset members (the legislature); choosing from various political factions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then those factions join with each other to find a majority. The process is dominated by one of the two major movements.  Either it&#8217;s the religious, conservative and militant Likud Party, or the more secular, moderate, and willing to negotiate \u201ccentrists\u201d Parties (Yesh Atid, National Unity, Labor). A government is formed, and the senior members of the \u201cexecutive\u201d are chosen. Elections in Israel are narrowly decided, with splits among progressives, moderates and conservatives, and secular versus religious.&nbsp;&nbsp;The citizens of Israel are divided as well, with strong factions on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel is like the United States, which, since the 2016 Presidential election, is also closely divided.&nbsp;&nbsp;Currently, we are a nation that\u2019s 40-40-20.&nbsp;&nbsp;Forty percent of Americans are going to vote for a MAGA candidate.  Forty percent would literally vote for anyone else but the MAGA candidate. And a slim twenty percent determine the outcome, time and time again.&nbsp;&nbsp;And it\u2019s not only in Presidential elections.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;&nbsp;US Congress is just as evenly split. The Senate Democrats control by only a couple of votes. And the House of Representatives Republicans have power by a narrow seven vote majority (out of 428 filled seats).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zionists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel is a homeland for Jewish people.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is essential to their national being:  a country founded by Zionists who believe that Israel is the holy land given to the Jews by God.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was ratified by the United Nations, as a sanctuary for European Jews who survived the Holocaust.&nbsp;&nbsp;But even then, the founders of Israel created a secular government. It was not a theocracy, but a democracy that recognized its religious origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a strong movement in Israel to give more power to the religious fundamentalists, the Ultra- Orthodox Jews.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their views are already influencing the government to increase Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Palestinian territory.&nbsp;&nbsp;Building settlements  \u201cplants the flag\u201d in land that would be a part of a new Palestinian state, if the \u201ctwo-state solution\u201d were ever&nbsp;&nbsp;implemented.&nbsp;&nbsp;Almost half a million Jews are living in the West Bank now, with an additional 220,000 living around East Jerusalem.&nbsp;&nbsp;Those half-million are intentionally \u201cputting down roots\u201d, in order to make a full separation into two different nations more difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Israel has a full \u201creligious court\u201d system, operated by Orthodox rabbis.  It determine&#8217;s civil issues such as marriage, divorce, and child custody.\u00a0\u00a0There is no such thing as a \u201ccivil\u201d marriage in Israel, (though there are Islamic, Christian, and Druze Courts).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The fundamental issue of the Israeli democracy is religious.\u00a0\u00a0If there is a \u201cone state\u201d solution, then mostly Islamic Palestinians are equal in number to mostly Jewish Israelis.\u00a0\u00a0There is an inherent conflict in a nation founded in secular Judaism, and still governed in part by religious law. Either Israel is a democracy with a \u201ctwo state\u201d solution, or a nation where a \u201cdemocratic minority\u201d rules over an occupied majority in one state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christian Nationalism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a rising Christian Nationalist movement in the United States, encroaching on the secular philosophy of the US Constitution. (<em>In contradiction of the Christian Nationalist claim that the United States is founded on Judeo-Christian principles, in fact, the founding fathers specifically kept religion out of the Constitution and its Amendments.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most recent example of this is the Alabama State Supreme Court determination that fertilized eggs for Invitro-Fertilization are human beings.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Court opinion directly invoked the deity in its opinion:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201c<em>All human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory<\/em>,\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/02\/24\/alabama-chief-justice-tom-parker-ivf\/\">WAPO<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;Religious justification for civil law rulings is not common in the United States, and the Alabama Supreme Court opinion demonstrates its rising power  (as does the current makeup of the US Supreme Court).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian Nationalists see the \u201cestablishment clause\u201d of the First Amendment (\u201cCongress shall make no law respecting an establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof\u201d) as not applying to their version of Christianity.&nbsp;&nbsp;They see the United States as a \u201cChristian Country\u201d (their \u201cChristianity\u201d) that tolerates other religions, rather than a secular nation that treats all religions dispassionately.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Revolution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politics is often polarizing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Passionate political views, whether they are about the economy, foreign policy, or the so-called \u201cwedge\u201d issues that are used to drive voter turnout, is the nature of democracies.&nbsp;&nbsp;And religion has always been a driving influence to conflict.&nbsp;&nbsp;The seeming inability of humans to believe in a deity, and allow others to believe in a different deity or none at all, drives us to conflict all of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now we see the worst of it all; politics and religion mixing to create a \u201cdevil\u2019s brew\u201d of conflict.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a foundational issue of&nbsp;&nbsp;Israel, and it\u2019s a growing problem in American life as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;What once were political issues, like education, immigration, and medical care; are now phrased in religious terms.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even some speak in terms of \u201cthe end of American democracy\u201d; to be replaced by a Christian Nationalist philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Welcome to the end of democracy,&#8221; Posobiec said, also referring to the Capitol riots. &#8220;We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn&#8217;t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.&#8221; Posobiec then held up his fist, and added: &#8220;All glory is not to government. All glory to God.&#8221; Some people in the crowd responded with applause.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/jack-posobiec-end-democracy-cpac-1872694\">Newsweek<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To quote Maya Angelou &#8211; When someone shows&nbsp;<em>you<\/em>&nbsp;who&nbsp;<em>they<\/em>&nbsp;are,&nbsp;<em>believe<\/em>&nbsp;them the&nbsp;<em>first time<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Israeli and American politics are different.&nbsp;&nbsp;Israel has a parliamentary system of government.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their citizens vote for Knesset members (the legislature); choosing from various political factions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then those factions join with each other to find a majority. 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Either it&#8217;s the religious, conservative and militant Likud Party, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/us-and-israel-a-contrast-in-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US and Israel: A Contrast in Politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US and Israel: A Contrast in Politics : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/us-and-israel-a-contrast-in-politics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US and Israel: A Contrast in Politics : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Politics Israeli and American politics are different.&nbsp;&nbsp;Israel has a parliamentary system of government.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their citizens vote for Knesset members (the legislature); choosing from various political factions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then those factions join with each other to find a majority. 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