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I recommend Jeffrey Goldberg's essay about the perennial debate between hawks and doves, realists and idealists. He recalls a visit he made a couple of years ago to the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, alma mater to many leaders of the settlement movement and scene of a terrorist attack earlier this year:
For many of the settlers, and certainly for their spiritual leaders, the state of Israel’s democracy is of minimal concern.... When I had visited Mercaz HaRav, Rabbi David Samson, a teacher at the yeshiva and one of the leading proponents of its philosophy, had foretold the attack...
In the course of a lengthy discussion, Samson explained the yeshiva’s position on democracy. “Democracy is not a value for us. Justice is a value, and fairness, but not democracy. In the Book of Exodus, it says that the Jews shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. It does not talk about democracy.” The Arabs who live in biblical Israel, he said, can either choose “to get along with us, to live peacefully, or to leave.”
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