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From: samet@sfmag.UUCP (A.I.Samet)
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Subject: Re: "Jewish State" vs. "state for the Jews"
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Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 21:06:35 EST
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> The irony of it is that they may encounter a new
> form of religious coercion imposed by the orthodox who wish to impose
> their religion/superstition on them.

ON THE SUBJECT OF IRONY:  A far sadder irony is Israel's  history
of  ANTI-religious  coercion,  a  documented history under which,
among other things, children were taken from religious parents to
irreligious kibbutzim and forced to abandon religious practice.

Why are our  champions of religious freedom so oblivious to  that
side  of  the coin? Perhaps this is the irony of "the pot calling
the kettle black".

That master ironicist, Orwell, wrote "All animals are  equal  but
some   are  more  equal  than  others."  Those  who  chant  self-
righteously about intolerance seem to drown out the voices of logic.

Stop and consider ....

					Yitzchok Samet