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There Are People Who Don’t Identify As Part of the Country They Live In

  As appeared in my Times of Israel blog.  What To Do With a Population  That Doesn’t Identify As Part of the Country They Live In. By: David S. Levine   Imagine living in a country where your fellow citizens do not identify with the same national identity as you do. Of course, everyone should be free to maintain their own cultural identity and/or practice their religion but still marry that identity/practice with their nationality. For example, Italian-American or French-Israeli. What if you learned that an overwhelming majority of citizens who make up nearly 20% of your country’s population do not consider themselves, or identify as, members of the country they are citizens of? And because they are sympathetic and empathetic to your county’s enemies, they are potential supporters of those who wish to destroy your country. What should your government do? On May 22, 2025, the Jewish New Syndicate reported: “Seventy percent of Israel’s Arabs, or some 1.5 m...
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  Books written by  David S. Levine , MBA  college instructor & corporate executiv e  (retired)   Revolutions: In Their Own Words – What They Really Say About Their Causes          How to Run the Business of YOU – From Anywhere in the World   Hey Israel – You’re Perfect. Now Change . [ FREE download at www.bit.ly/HeyIsrael-2dEdition ]    
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Shavuot. How is this revelation different from all others?

 As appeared on Jewish News Syndicate and my Times of Israel blog.   The major Jewish holiday of Shavuot represents the revelation when God communicated directly with the Israelites and gave them the Torah, including the Ten Commandments. This established Israelites as a people bound by a divine covenant. A n interesting observation was made by the late Sir Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (1948 – 2020) z”l , Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom. In his book A Letter In the Scroll he states: “Christianity and Islam are also religions of revelation, but in neither does God reveal Himself to an entire nation. In one he appears to the ‘son of God,’ and in the other to his prophet. In neither does the revelation have the public character of Sinai, an experience shared by men and women, young and old, righteous and ordinary alike. The difference between revelation to a holy individual and to a nation as a whole is fundamental and defines the unique character of the Jewish project.” ...
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