The secular state of Israel-Palestine

A brilliant snippet of this....regarding the future in Israel/Palestine.

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A century ago, G.K. Chesterton identified the fundamental paradox facing critics of religion:

"Men who begin to fight the Church for the sake of freedom and humanity end by flinging away freedom and humanity if only they may fight the Church ... The secularists have not wrecked divine things but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them."

Does the same not hold for the advocates of religion? How many defenders of religion started by attacking contemporary secular culture and ended up forsaking any meaningful religious experience?

Similarly, many liberal warriors are so eager to fight anti-democratic fundamentalism that they will throw away freedom and democracy if only they may fight terror. Some love human dignity so much that they are ready to legalize torture - the ultimate degradation of human dignity - to defend it.

As for the Israeli defenders of Jewish purity: they want to protect it so much that they are ready to forsake the very core of Jewish identity.