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February 26, 2014 6:15 am at 6:15 am
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HaKatan
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GAW:
The problem with that approach is that, unlike the US or Britian, this State of Israel is a chilul Hashem, shmad, etc. and you cannot divorce your being a Jew from anything.
So it’s not possible to have national pride in Israel even in that sense, whereas in the countries of the nations of the world, our Torah commands us to seek the welfare of the country in which we reside so, lichaora, it does not conflict with the Torah to be proud to be living as a Jew as a citizen of the medinah shel chessed, for example.