I was struck watching interviews of Rabbi Meir Kahane about how often he talked about the conflict between a democratic Israel and a Jewish Israel. If Jews cease to be the majority in Israel, then if the country remains a democracy, it will cease to be a Jewish state.
Rabbi Kahane said to Dennis Prager in 1985: “There is a basic contradiction between Zionism and Western democracy. A Jewish state at the very minimum means a state with a majority of Jews, because only in that way can Jews solve their own destiny, be masters of their own fate. Western democracy postulates the basic axiom that it doesn’t matter who’s the majority. It doesn’t matter if you’re Jewish or non-Jewish, whoever’s the majority is it. Therefore there is a basic contradiction, since most western Jews are basically schizophrenic, with one foot inside Judaism and the other half inside western culture, and they would like to believe that Judaism is Thomas Jefferson. It isn’t.”
