… Against clear warnings, repeatedly and abundantly present in Herzl's writings, the Jewish communities in Zion had allowed the Jewish religion to define the very essence of Zionism. Unfortunately, a particularly fanatic and archaic version of Judaism was selected for this purpose. This is how Israel was born into existence from day one as a religious state, far away from Theodore Herzl's attractive civic vision.

… In the nineteen-fifties and sixties the State of Israel had made a tremendous effort to drag masses of Arabs into its territory, because they were Jews. In the nineteen-nineties and in the first years of the new millennium it exercised an exhaustive mass import of non-Jews, because they were not Arabs.

"Taking religion out of politics would mean that there would be no favored national-religious group in Israel and all children of all cultures and fates would be equal in front of the Law. It also means that the state would become modernly multi-national. Strategically, this is the only long-term chance for the Jewish community in Israel to survive, to develop, and possibly, at long last, find some inner light that may be offered - as our old prophets wished - to other nations."