Oh don’t go overboard, he’s still trying to game people with that statement. Wait until the dust settles. He’ll prove it.
Exactly correct. Peres didn’t mean it the way an outsider might understand it.
There are many traditional Jews that only accept the State of Israel as a secular state, like the USA, except that a majority of its citizens happen to be Jews. Like the secular US government is forcing secularism on American Christians, Peres is one of the ringleaders forcing secularism on traditional Jews in the Land of Israel.
Calling it Christian or Jewish “values” doesn’t make it so.
He already starts proving it in the paragraphs following my excerpt. That he got that far without saying anything I disagreed with is amazing, but hardly a reason to join his fan club.