Namely, it's the religion of one nation only -- the Jewish people. Anyone who converts to Judaism simultaneously joins the Jewish people.
Conversely, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians and members of other religions don't constitute a people, respectively. There could be Indian Buddhists or Chinese Buddhists, just as there are French Christians and German Christians, and so on. Even when a particular religion was in its formation process within one single county, usually not all its inhabitants belonged to that specific religion. These religions branched out not according to uni-national lines, and never sought to carve out unique peoples specifically chosen by their deities to have exclusive membership in these religions respectively, including the stipulation that converts concommitantly join a corresponding nation or people. This is what the "Warrior" probably not only has failed to grasp, but is apparently adamant in not comprehending.
The above deranged hate consumed liar is of course propagating the ludicrous lie that Israel amounts to a theocracy de facto. But then, this wasn't his most egregious lie, so what could you expect. Notice also how he tosses all reason out the window by trying to excuse the existence Muslim theocracies by pointing to Israel, as if the fact that Israel's civil life is governed to some extent by Jewish law makes Islamic theocracy right. Besides, Islamic theocracy originated in the Arabian peninsula and spread out to other Muslim lands way before the State of Israel was created.
I do agree that other nations or peoples have strong cases for national independence, including the Kurds. They have been continually wrong by the powers that be in that their legitimate national aspirations were never done justice. Surely the Kurds have a much better case for being given a homeland than the Palestinians who are probably the least deserving on the list (hell, even an Israeli communist called Yosef Goell agrees on this point).
Jews have already lost most of their historical homeland's territory, i.e. the East Bank and much of Judea-Samaria to Arab imperialist occupation since the 7th century onwards, so the demands made by rabid anti-Zionists that they give up all that's left of their ancient homeland to the Palestinians is morally insane, and I've seen at least one anti-Zionist stating this at his own behest on Indybay.
Judaism isn't a race. But it's a national religion
Date Edited: 02 Feb 2005 11:18:43 PM
Conversely, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians and members of other religions don't constitute a people, respectively. There could be Indian Buddhists or Chinese Buddhists, just as there are French Christians and German Christians, and so on. Even when a particular religion was in its formation process within one single county, usually not all its inhabitants belonged to that specific religion. These religions branched out not according to uni-national lines, and never sought to carve out unique peoples specifically chosen by their deities to have exclusive membership in these religions respectively, including the stipulation that converts concommitantly join a corresponding nation or people. This is what the "Warrior" probably not only has failed to grasp, but is apparently adamant in not comprehending.
The above deranged hate consumed liar is of course propagating the ludicrous lie that Israel amounts to a theocracy de facto. But then, this wasn't his most egregious lie, so what could you expect. Notice also how he tosses all reason out the window by trying to excuse the existence Muslim theocracies by pointing to Israel, as if the fact that Israel's civil life is governed to some extent by Jewish law makes Islamic theocracy right. Besides, Islamic theocracy originated in the Arabian peninsula and spread out to other Muslim lands way before the State of Israel was created.
I do agree that other nations or peoples have strong cases for national independence, including the Kurds. They have been continually wrong by the powers that be in that their legitimate national aspirations were never done justice. Surely the Kurds have a much better case for being given a homeland than the Palestinians who are probably the least deserving on the list (hell, even an Israeli communist called Yosef Goell agrees on this point).
Jews have already lost most of their historical homeland's territory, i.e. the East Bank and much of Judea-Samaria to Arab imperialist occupation since the 7th century onwards, so the demands made by rabid anti-Zionists that they give up all that's left of their ancient homeland to the Palestinians is morally insane, and I've seen at least one anti-Zionist stating this at his own behest on Indybay.
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