• Nighed@sffa.community
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    10 months ago

    My understanding is that there are some interesting demographic effects at play in Israel - their percentage of heavily religious population has been increasing and is therefore getting more and more political control.

    The ultra-orthadox (I think this is the term) Jews are also exempt from military service I believe.

    This is/could lead to increased internal instability in the coming years/decades.

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      10 months ago

      You are correct. Ultra-orthodox don’t have to go to military, don’t have to work, etc.

      So they are completely useless for the state in terms of secular point of view.

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      10 months ago

      The CIA should reverse these trends and push liberal internationalism. Which is supposed to be their speciality by now

      We can’t have a nuclear armed state run by religious zealots in the middle east. Especially one that we are seemingly rapidly losing control over