Shalom Chaim,
I just listened to your answer to my question from the previous ASK JTF show about Israel lack of resources to fight a prolonged war. I would like to thank you for your thoughtful and passionate answer! I wholeheartedly agree with your line of arguments - the human spirit can overcome lack anything! Thank you so much for your excellent & spirited response!
Another major concerns that most Israeli Jews have with Kahanism is that our program will lead to an economic boycotte by our trade partners. Israel's Hi-Tech economy constitutes over 50% of total export. Foreign hi-tech giants set up very impressive R&D facilities in Israel. To add, although Israel has over 3,500 hi-tech startups (second after US), Israeli companies rarely grow big - there are about 5 or so hi-tech companies in Israel with sales over $1B/year. Another aspect worth of consideration is that Russian Jews, who are naturally inclined to be right-wing and very pragmatic, disproportionally contribute over 25% of the Israel's hi-tech workforce. To make things more complicated, it is a trait of the hi-tech market is that technology is very easy to copy, in particular software. And software is what most Israel's companies develop.
Any disruption of normal business, much less, the total or partial economic boycotte by EU or US will inevitable lead to mass unemployment, loss of jobs that would be extremely difficult to re-create, tremendous loss of government revenue, mass emigration of most productive people from Israel, collapse in the housing market, etc, etc.
I believe that an average Israeli voter, or our potential supporter, will not be willing to significantly low his/her living standards even in a short term. I thinks that this is a very serious and valid concern that we must address.
Thank you for your response!