Re: How to close the gap?

<yaakov_macales@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Many of us who view the destruction of Gush Katif as the biggest
> disaster in Israel's history have come
> to the conclusion that it is imperative for the National Religious
> Camp to try to bring the National Religious Camp closer
> to the Haredim. The tragedy is that we agree on 99% of
> things and yet we fight like cats and dogs over the other
> 1%. A decision was made many years ago that the National
> Religious Camp should spend all its efforts in "dialogueing"
> with the secular Zionist camp and neglecting the Haredim.
> This, in my opinion, has been a tragic mistake. Now that
> the secular Zionist camp has pretty clearly and irrevocably
> turned its back on the National Religious movement, everyone
> is crying over the past mistakes. It has been a fact for many
> years that there is less and less ground for common action
> between the secular Israelis and the National Religious
> camp (the destruction of culture-in particular the extreme
> hostility to all the values of the religious community in
> the media, the immodest dress of women prevalent on the "street",
> the continual erosion of the public nature of Shabbat with the
> opening of more and more shopping centers, etc.)
> The Haredim have complained about these things for years, but
> the National Religious shut their ears, saying "we serve in elite
> combat units-the secular respect us for that, the secular still
> support the settlements,etc". In the end the secular, including
> the Likud now complain there are too many religious soldiers, they
> slander the people of Gush Katif who they praised just a short time
> ago., etc. We now have no choice
> but to do teshuva and unify the Torah observant communities.
> It won't be easy, and there are major differences between us,
> but it has to be done to save Israel as a Jewish state.


.. . . and to create a Halacha state. Many posters here will second
you, still, in real life, you might be outnumbered. Intentionally,
I won't put my thoughts on you ideas, just remember that an idea
can be infectious; some ideas even caused an epidemic.
--
Giora Drachsler
Jerusalem, Israel



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