RD:
“What about all the Mizrahim and Sephardim who suffered under the Arabs and Ottomans for years?”
Again, I’m not saying that living under the Arabs was paradise. However, before 1948 they were not starting wars with the explicit intent of “driving all the Jews into the sea”, and they were not killing even close to 14,000 Jews every 65 years. I’m not saying that things between us and the Arabs used to be great, only that the founding of the Medina has made it a whole lot worse.
GAW:
Perhaps if the Chareidim had offered that at an earlier point, things would not have gotten to where they are now. But the way things are now, Lapid/Bennet will not be satisfied with a mere cutting of funds. They are out for blood.