Part of the problem is that people fail to make a distinction between the political entity known as the state of Israel and the ethnic/religious/historical people known as the Jews. Another thing that few people realize is that Arabs are a Semitic people, too.

One thing I've always respected about Jews is the fact that they don't proseletyze. The problems I have about the role Israel plays in shaping US foreign policy in the Middle East (which I see no need to elaborate upon here) is political and has little to do with the religion or ethnicity of the inhabitants of that land.

I don't think that any progress will take place in the Mideast until people learn to begin separating the polit...

Part of the problem is that people fail to make a distinction between the political entity known as the state of Israel and the ethnic/religious/historical people known as the Jews. Another thing that few people realize is that Arabs are a Semitic people, too.

One thing I've always respected about Jews is the fact that they don't proseletyze. The problems I have about the role Israel plays in shaping US foreign policy in the Middle East (which I see no need to elaborate upon here) is political and has little to do with the religion or ethnicity of the inhabitants of that land.

I don't think that any progress will take place in the Mideast until people learn to begin separating the political issues from matters of religion and ethnicity.

Quite true, BB, and it just shows that church/state separation is a good idea for any country. It may not always be the individual's choice. I only have hearsay evidence about this, but a Jewish coworker once told me that she would like to visit Israel, but that doing so put her at risk of conscription into the Israeli army. She told me that any Jewish person entering Israel became, [i]de facto[/], subject to local law, including the draft. This was a number of years ago, and I took her at her word. To stand by this, I would have to check out up-to-date references - maybe another commenter will know more about this than I do and say something about it.

I have no doubt, though, that the...

Quite true, BB, and it just shows that church/state separation is a good idea for any country. It may not always be the individual's choice. I only have hearsay evidence about this, but a Jewish coworker once told me that she would like to visit Israel, but that doing so put her at risk of conscription into the Israeli army. She told me that any Jewish person entering Israel became, [i]de facto[/], subject to local law, including the draft. This was a number of years ago, and I took her at her word. To stand by this, I would have to check out up-to-date references - maybe another commenter will know more about this than I do and say something about it.

I have no doubt, though, that there are a lot of Catholics who would leave the country to fight for the Pope, and a lot of millenialist Protestants who would also leave the country to join a modern crusade if one was in the offing.

God may have given the land to the children of Abraham,
and the story is remarkable. Now they are trying to do the work of God with guns, and explosives. I don't see God in Israel, They obviously don't need him when they have America. Antisemitism is becoming a cheap excuse. "Don't criticize Jews they were in the holocaust."
The ones that survived were often the ones who could afford to go to America. Rich crying for the poor, sick, and crippled they deserted.
The Hebrews were kicked out by the Romans, and were told by their God that this would happen.
Israelis remain the children of god, while they aim to behave in a manner that god finds acceptable, or they wither, and die. They are not c...

God may have given the land to the children of Abraham,
and the story is remarkable. Now they are trying to do the work of God with guns, and explosives. I don't see God in Israel, They obviously don't need him when they have America. Antisemitism is becoming a cheap excuse. "Don't criticize Jews they were in the holocaust."
The ones that survived were often the ones who could afford to go to America. Rich crying for the poor, sick, and crippled they deserted.
The Hebrews were kicked out by the Romans, and were told by their God that this would happen.
Israelis remain the children of god, while they aim to behave in a manner that god finds acceptable, or they wither, and die. They are not cut off because they Sin they drop off because their spirit is dead.
When they behaved irresponsibly in the old testament, they were exiled to Babylon, and Persia, by god for both punishment, and education.
They are prepared to Damn people for criticism. If there was truly a just cause, why do we always hear the same rhetoric. Their whole argument hangs on a thread that means nothing to any other religion, and very little to Judaism or Christianity.
This is about the abuse of Power,.and the idea that someone can be right, because they have the weapons to prove it. How dare they say condemnation of the military is an insult to a race. This is Gun Worship.