The Late Great State of Israel authored by Aaron Klein looks at the conflict being played out in modern day Israel between two very different notions of a Jewish state.

One group in the conflict wishes to see Israel mimic secularised European states. The other wishes to see a greater role for what it terms Jewish history, traditions, and character:

“The Israeli government is causing grave harm to the country’s security by waging an unrelenting war against its religious-Zionist population, charges a new book thats hit the shelves Tuesday.

In the book, “The Late, Great State of Israel,” WorldNetDaily journalist Aaron Klein argues that Israel is facing unprecedented, mortal danger, including from the Obama administration, yet few seem to realize it….” Read the whole article via Arutz Sheva on more Israel news.

Aaron Klein’s books brings up some interesting points. In essence the political Zionist enterprise was a secular movement born out of the despair of assimilated Jewry in Europe. Many of the Rabbis not only in Europe but also in the Holy Land viewed with suspicion the motives and means of the political Zionists.

Once such man was Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem during British rule. Zonnenfeld wrote this about Zionism in the early 20th century:

“And it is quite clear to me that there has never been in our entire history existed a threat to our existence as a people so great as the danger posed by Zionism … which seeks to uproot our ancient heritage that has been our legacy since Sinai, and to detach the Jewish people from everything that connects it to its glorious past.“

Forward 87 years and we find that Israel has been established and that many of her supporters come from religious communities spread around the world.

For any one who has read Zionist history can only marvel at the manner in which has come about. From Theodore Herzl onwards political Zionists have pushed their agenda irrespective of the views of many Rabbis. This successful re-interpretation of history and religion has come to such a point now that we are able to discuss an internal conflict between religious and secular Zionists. For me this the most intriguing aspect of the whole debate that is taking place in Israel between the secular and the religious.

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