US will return to being the largest donor to the most oppressed people in the world

[conon394]

Avoiding the mid section of posts and replying just the OP. I pretty sure you could find some more oppressed people than the Palestinians. Restoring aid seems to fall in Biden's wheel house. A foreign policy move that is easy. Does not piss anyone off. Note he not retracting recognition of the Golan or moving the US embassy... In other words not getting distracted from his core aims while he still has a slim congressional majority vaccinations and the economy but doing the easy things to step back from Trump foreign policy. I would note also the junior high grad Iran deal talks in the same cup. The OK Russia or Germany you tell Iran here is what we say while wait for China or whomever to tell us what they say. It is diplomacy. But at a distance and not something to distract too much from what is critical to the administration.

[enoch]

100% agree. The irony that Biden is one of the best presidents in history already isn't lost on me. Sometimes an old white man is exactly what the world needs to heal.

[sumskilz]

It also sounds like you are saying I am right about most jews in Israel being secular but somehow also wrong because secular means Orthodox when you use the word. Am I reading this correct?

Many secular (Hiloni) Jews in Israel are traditional (Masorti), meaning that despite being secular themselves, they believe the values and traditions of Orthodox Judaism should be culturally normative. Some traditional Jews are completely secular in lifestyle (Hiloni-Masorti), while others observe some of the Orthodox traditions themselves. Less than 3% of Israelis identify with the liberal Jewish movements that predominate in the US, and are generally considered secular in Israel. Those who are fully observant are considered religious (Dati). People who are referred to as Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi), are fundamentalists who adhere to a hardcore interpretation of Jewish law that (despite what they believe) only dates back to the early Twentieth Century.

The demographics in detail:

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