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AntiFascist

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7. Israel often seems to be very divided....
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 03:18 PM
Aug 2012

there's sometimes talk of civil war and even forming a separate Jewish state:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23049/language/en-US/Default.aspx

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"Others were more focused on the bigger picture and the deep and widening rift in Israeli society.
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Aviner also pointed out that there are extremists in all sectors of Israeli society. It is important to note that Israeli leftists and anarchists join with Palestinian rioters in assaulting Israeli soldiers along the "West Bank" security fence on a weekly basis, but receive none of the condemnation and scorn heaped on the Hilltop Youth by the left-wing media and politicians.

It is that dichotomy to which Rabbi Amar was referring when he warned against the possibility of civil war."
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