Lee Kuan Yew, the father of Singapur, said that in a multi-ethnic country, there is no right nor left, each ethnic group votes its own party. Lee was a genius: when the English colonialist surrendered to the Japanese army, he learnt Japanese so well that found employment in the intelligence service of the Japanese occupation government. Israel is a super-classic multi-ethnic society and people vote as they were following Lee's insight, each one according its identity.
The United Arab List succeeded in mobilizing the Arab sector and is now the third party in Israel. It is a very important political force. The Moroccan Jews voted massively for the Shas party. The secular Jewish sector of the kibutzim and the politically correct academicians voted for Labor and Meretz. The large religious sector voted for their representatives. There is no similar identity group in the West, nowhere Catholics marry only Catholics and vote for a Catholic party. Jewish religious people marry mostly in-group and is becoming a well-defined ethnia. Russian immigrants vote for Our Home party. The secular majority has divided itself according to the intensity of its hate of the Jews, and I mean the religious Jews, the only group that seriously follows the Jewish religion. I could say that "antisemitism" is the main issue between Netaniyahu (allied to the religious) and Ganz/Lapid, who hate the Jews. The argument against the Jews is that they are parasites, do not work and do not serve in the army. More or less the Nazi accusations against the Jews in Europe. The Jews do not work but exploit the majority, and they avoid fighting in the nation's wars. And have too many children. The terminology used by the press - here and in the West - speaks about right and left, the seating arrangement in the Assembly during the French Revolution. Lee Kuan Yew would have known better.
The United Arab List succeeded in mobilizing the Arab sector and is now the third party in Israel. It is a very important political force. The Moroccan Jews voted massively for the Shas party. The secular Jewish sector of the kibutzim and the politically correct academicians voted for Labor and Meretz. The large religious sector voted for their representatives. There is no similar identity group in the West, nowhere Catholics marry only Catholics and vote for a Catholic party. Jewish religious people marry mostly in-group and is becoming a well-defined ethnia. Russian immigrants vote for Our Home party. The secular majority has divided itself according to the intensity of its hate of the Jews, and I mean the religious Jews, the only group that seriously follows the Jewish religion. I could say that "antisemitism" is the main issue between Netaniyahu (allied to the religious) and Ganz/Lapid, who hate the Jews. The argument against the Jews is that they are parasites, do not work and do not serve in the army. More or less the Nazi accusations against the Jews in Europe. The Jews do not work but exploit the majority, and they avoid fighting in the nation's wars. And have too many children. The terminology used by the press - here and in the West - speaks about right and left, the seating arrangement in the Assembly during the French Revolution. Lee Kuan Yew would have known better.
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