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One of the best summations that I have encountered: "This irredentism of the post-Zionist largely Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) relatively recent immigrants who now connive with Netanyahu (of Ashkenazi descent), and keep him in power as the Likud Party’s standard bearer, have ahistorical and balance-upsetting goals in mind. They want to win a long-running series of battles against secular Judaism, against the largely European and not Middle Eastern and Sephardic upper-class that founded and fought to establish the upstart Israeli state, and against democratic Israelis who want to draft Orthodox youth and tear them away from relentless study of the Torah."

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