Avi K:
This may very well be my last post on either thread, as you’ve repeatedly failed to be direct, either in answering the fundamental question that has now been posed to you numerous times, with an answer that actually gives some sort of clue as to whether it’s positive or negative, or generally.
Furthermore, what point about IDF officer candidates? You’ve made no such point to me that I can find.
However, I will respond to your main point so as not to be seen as avoiding anything. As I have said many times, details does not a picture make without an underlying unifying theme. Active, financial and moral support for toeviah, i.e. the ‘pinkwashing’ of Tel Aviv, carried out with the cash, laws and resources of the State, the fact that the constitution and Judiciary permit it, that alone undermines any outward attempt at ‘Jewishness’, including the token gestures you’ve mentioned above. And yes, if someone actively promoted issurim, I would not consider him religious.
Your claim that the general character of the country is moving in a ‘Jewish’ or ‘traditional’ direction does not change the fact that the State, as a whole, as you’ve helpfully over-defined it, not only does not adhere to halacha, but openly defies it. My adage above about someone who keeps Shabbos but openly and unrepentantly eats pork still remains valid. That person cannot be considered adhering to halacha. And a State that does not even make an effort to adhere fully to halacha (as opposed to a person, who may slip occasionally but generally endevour towards perfection) cannot claim to be adherent.