One religion

In the one and only Jewish country to which I made aliya, is it not enough to celebrate our own holidays?

Do we really have to tout those of a religion that has been the source of such torment to the Jewish people (“Chrismukka in Tel Aviv,” December 23)?

I also refer to the Muslim celebrations that we seem to take such delight in advertising and in which our leaders also to some extent take part.

I made aliya to a Jewish country in which it is a crime to build homes for Jews but not for our enemies;

It is a crime to demolish illegal buildings of our enemies but not for Jews;

A country where Jews are forcibly thrown out of their homes by their own government;

Where Muslims are called to prayer five times a day, starting around 4:30 in the morning through loudspeakers that would wake the dead, never mind the normal household with children, and no one is prepared to stop them because it would make them angry and our government would have to face angry Muslims (“Muezzin, Kotel bills on hold until after Trump inauguration,” December 23).

I made aliya to a Jewish country where the IDF holds drills simulating raids against fortified bunkers, clears safe passages through minefields, breaks down fortified doors and deals with nonconventional threats in the battlefield and continues to work day in and day out to counter the threat of tunnels originating in the Gaza Strip (“Preparing for a future war in the Gaza Strip’s tunnels,” December 23).

I fail to understand this as surely the logical solution would have been to destroy Hamas long ago, and certainly during Operation Protective Edge, ensuring our military and our citizens would not have to live under the threat of attack.

Notwithstanding all of the above, I am proud of my country’s potential to be one that is unafraid to live according to Jewish law, when we will finally assert our full sovereignty over our land, which was our purpose in being returned after so long in exile. EDITH OGNALL Netanya