Early political Zionism is described as an exciting idea, rich in promise for a better future for a long suffering people via immigration. However, the movement immediately stumbled on the archaic, self-segregating religious doctrines it was supposed to reject. Religious decrees override human rights and civil liberties for Jews as well as for non-Jews in the state of Israel. The bloody struggle with the Palestinians which is unanimously seen as a fight over territories is – according to this author - fundamentally a religious war.

With the western world daily agonizing over Moslem fundamentalism and its political impact, some attention should be given to the fact that no religion - Judaism included - is fit to dictate politics in a modern society.

The bottom line is however optimistic, because "The human variety populating the areas under the control of the Israeli State is still capable of shaking off the unfair rules of the game imposed on it by a confused and inefficient legal code, riddled with inner contradictions"..