STEVE WROTE: "Israel is a society where racism is the law."

BECKY: This is not really true, now, is it Steve?
You are basing your ENTIRE thesis on the fact that Israel has been set up since day one as the homeland for Jewish people anywhere in the world.

What you call racism, is really a favoritism. It was a needed and vital response to the racism and genocide against the Jewish people which occurred just prior to the Holocaust and during the Nazi holocaust.

Much of the world was horrified by what Hitler did, both in his expansionism, and his genociding the Roma,the homosexuals, the mentally retarded, and the Jews.

World sympathy allowed and promoted setting up a State where Jewish people, throughout the world, could come, find refuge, and become citizens.

This is not "racist" as you would like gullible indyreaders to think. It's just the opposite. It was supported by a world who was appalled by the racism the Jews had suffered. A sort of affirmative action for Jews.

Likewise, Arab Muslims, who lived in Palestine prior to the foundation of Israel in 1948, were invited and accepted into Israeli society without any pressure to convert to Judaism, or any loss of rights because they are not Jewish.

Steve--you just can't stand to have one, tiny, Jewish country in the world. There are dozens of Islamic countries---some don't allow ANY Jews to live there. THAT is racism. I don't see you writing reams and reams of diatribe against their truly racist governments.

Israel recognizes 15 separate religions. Israel has religious freedom for all. Israel protects Islmic religious sites EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE BUILT ON TOP OF THEIR MOST HOLY SITE!!

Israel's tolerance for other races and religions is both encoded in their religion (Judaism calls for tolerance and friendship with foreigners) but also in their government.

You MISSED MY POINT COMPLETELY about Japan. I said that any country which has different races living there, has a problem with racist attitudes among some of its people. Israel is no exception. My point about Japan, is they are almost ALL Japanese and don't have much contact with people of other races.

Oh, and there are NO internal Ethiopian or Black Jewish refugees in Israel. Another one of your falsehoods.