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israel is more of a secular country than the United States is. having family that lives there (scattered throughout areas like Haifa and tel aviv), i know for a fact that more of israel is secular than it is religious. israel was founded as a country where it would be safe (a little ironic now) to be a jew. like almost every other country, israel has its own ethnic identity, which is jewish. one can be completely secular and still be consaidered a jew. it is not all about religion. one thing that often made me angry about this whole situation was that the palestinians and many of the ancestors of israels popualtion today were in the same boat. 900,000 jews were kicked out of the arab countries in the middle east. those jews were refugees in israel before the country could get up and running. several millions of people were probably uprooted during the partition of the ottoman empire by the enlgish, yet the palestinians are the only ones without a real state now. i wonder why.
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