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From today’s Ha’aretz, under the headline, Israel's plan for next year's school curriculum: Reinforcing Jewish and Zionist values

A survey released two weeks ago found that 60% of Jewish youths aged 15-18 believe "strong" leaders are more important than the rule of law, and 70% believe that when the state's security needs and democratic values conflict, security should win out. In addition, 46% said Arabs should not be allowed to serve in the Knesset, and 50% said they opposed having Arabs live in their neighborhood. The main trend is that Jewish nationalist values were growing stronger, and respect for democratic-liberal values were weakening, concluded the survey-makers.

So Jewish values and Zionist values are the same thing?

I know this is too easy a trick to pull but let’s turn the clock back to, say, 1935, and run that paragraph again:

A survey released two weeks ago found that 60% of German youths aged 15-18 believe "strong" leaders are more important than the rule of law, and 70% believe that when the state's security needs and democratic values conflict, security should win out. In addition, 46% said Jews should not be allowed to serve in the Reichstag, and 50% said they opposed having Jews live in their neighborhood. The main trend is that German nationalist values were growing stronger, and respect for democratic-liberal values were weakening, concluded the survey-makers.

Far too easy.

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