A New King Of The Jews ???

Here are some thoughts from Uri Avnery:

In Israel, there is no civil marriage. All marriages are religious. If an Israeli Jewish man wants to marry a Christian or Muslim woman – a rare occurrence – they must go to neighboring Cyprus. Foreign marriages are recognized.

But in modern Judaism, there are several religious communities. In the US, the main communities are liberal – Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism. These are hardly recognized in Israel. All marriages are strictly Orthodox. So is the overseeing of kosher establishments, a hugely lucrative enterprise.

This means that the main streams of American Judaism have practically no rights in Israel. They hardly exist here.

As if this was not enough, there is a vicious conflict about the Western Wall, the holiest Jewish site. It is considered the only remnant of the Jewish temple, which was destroyed by the Romans some 2100 years ago. (Actually, it is only a remnant of an outer supporting wall.)

While belonging in theory to all Jews, the Israeli government has turned this holy place over to the Orthodox establishment, which allows only males to approach it. The reform community and women’s organizations protested, and at long last a compromise was reached, which reserves the main part of the wall for the orthodox, but leaves a separate part to women and reform Jews. Now the government has annulled this compromise.

You can read the rest @
http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2017/12/01/netanyahu-not-king-worlds-jews/

Three observations:

(1) Apparently orthodox Jews don't even recognize other Jews. Do you really think they have any love (or even tolerance) for Christianity?

(2) We are tolerating in Israel things we abhor in ourselves and every other country on earth. Why?

(3) Perhaps Netanyahu is NOT "king of the Jews", but he is well on his way to becoming their messiah. Once he completes the humbling of Trump and gets the US to move our embassy to Jerusalem, he's a shoo-in for the job.