By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent : Sheetrit: Jews should not be granted automatic Israeli citizenship
Talkback
Title:Ethnic/religious purity
Name:Steve
City: MinneapolisState: USA
Only backward states like Saudi Arabia can keep that up, and only for a limited amount of time.

A state that aspires to some Western, developed, values yet keeps on with the pretense of religious purity will run into the contradictions sooner rather than later--Israel for example.

Israel will either change or it will fade away into some sleepy Mid-Eastern backwater.