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  • A full-page of the latest JC was dedicated to the Sands thesis, which can only lend aid and comfort to the enemies of Israel (k'lal and medinat).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Perhaps it's that old double standard that still confuses "eretz Yisrael" with "medinat Yisrael" and expects Jews to act like OT'ers, rather than like Americans and chooses to punish them according to the OT standards.

    Is That Legal?: Talk About Your Bad Luck. 2007

  • If you want me to think like, say, Phoebe, who equates disappointment in the Jewish people with a desire for their extermination, why blow all that smoke about am/eretz/medinat yisrael up my ass?

    Cognitive Dissonance, Part II | Jewschool 2007

  • At the time we spoke, Gilad was associated with Meimad (the word is a Hebrew contraction of Medinat Yehudit, medinat demokratit, "a Jewish state, a democratic state"), a dovish offshoot of the National Religious Party.

    Israel Now 2000

  • At the time we spoke, Gilad was associated with Meimad (the word is a Hebrew contraction of Medinat Yehudit, medinat demokratit, "a Jewish state, a democratic state"), a dovish offshoot of the National Religious Party.

    Israel Now 2000

  • I get the impression he's a caring Jew who is attracted to the medinat kol exrachai'ah idea because it fits so nicely into his broader Weltanschauung, the one that praises the European Union as the way of the future, the goal of human history and so on.

    TPMCafe 2009

  • "My impression of The Hebrew Republic thesis is that [Avishai is] talking about medinat kol exrachai'ah, the country of its citizens.

    TPMCafe 2009

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