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Originally Posted by blankall
I've always thought this argument was stupid.
England is filled w/ people of English decent and France is filled w/ people of French decent. Why should Isreal be allowed to be filled w/ people of Jewish decent.
The whole point of establishing Israel was to give a racial minority self determination and sovereingty. If Israel loses that then the Jews in the state would be at the mercy of whoever the majority becomes.
This whole argument is usually used as a means of justifying letting in unlimited amounts of arabs into the country. If that ever happened the first consequence would be the voting in of some islamic government that would exterminate the jews there. If you think any different your lying to yourself.
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This is a pretty broad statement.
On the one hand, I imagine I'd be pissed about the holocaust and would relish the opportunity to live in a state with a jewish majority, if i were jewish. On the other, having to 'create' a jewish state is very insulting, and also seems to abdicate the teachings and laws of Judaism in favour of adopting political Zionism. There is a large, but suppressed, jewish voice that actively denounces zionism as anti-semetic.