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From: abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (abeles)
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Subject: Re: Re: "Jewish State" vs. "state for the Jews"
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 19:39:06 EST
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>                                     ... In the Israeli army soldiers are
> not allowed to desecrate the Sabbath in public places (they are free to do
> as they please when in private -- unlike Iran where religious observance is
> forced on you). ...

This still amounts to religious observance being forced upon people.
  
>       ... Unlike your response, which implies nothing but derision for those
> whose views differ from your own, most Orthodox Jews that I have come in 
> contact with will do all they can for a fellow Jew regardless of his/her
> beliefs. (A. Gross)

Many of those who do act as you suggest only will do *what
they think they can.*  Their particular thinking is inherently 
bound by the rigid environment which they make for themselves.

--J. Abeles