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It doesn't mean that according to Jewish law. A convert is as much a Jew as the child of a Jewish mother is.
And I agree that an "ancestral right" to the land is a weak argument. But who is making it? I don't. The Bible and the Quran make the claim, not I. And while I believe the claim, I don't use it as an argument.
The Zionists bought the land and fought for it when they were attacked. And middle-eastern Jews obviously cannot live anywhere else. That's a very strong argument.
Note that en-masse deportation of Hebrew-, Arabic- and Aramaic-speaking Jews to western countries is not a solution either. At some point the only solution will be for the Arabs to accept that there are and will remain Jews in the middle-east.
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Correct. And what's the problem? I think you attach a great importance to "blood" while arguing about something that has nothing to do with blood.
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Yes, I am sure. The Jewish National Fund started buying land long before World War I and continued buying land under British rule. By 1948 a part of Israel was inhabited by more Jews than Arabd and that part became the independent state of Israel.
The JNF continues managing land and cultivating it. For example, it built the irrigation systems that literally made the desert bloom. (I have seen the difference between irrigated hills and natural hills in the Judaean desert.)
If you go to Wikipedia you can see a picture of Tel Aviv in 1906: some 50 dudes standing in the desert. The Zionists bought the land from Bedouins and founded the city of Tel Aviv back when it was still the Ottoman Empire.
Baron Benjamin Rothschild financed a lot of it. That's why there are streets and even a city named after him in Israel. He bought most of the land in the north. Jewish settlement in the south began earlier.
The Negev was assigned to the Jewish state since the Bedouins who lived there were (and remain) allied with the Jews. Similarly the Druze in the north were allied with the Jews and became part of Israel. And you will find that most Arabs in northern Israel do not want their towns to become part of an Arab state now either.
The JNF is still collecting money all over the world for the Israel project.
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Seemed like you cared about descent. But my point is that the Jews of Israel cannot live anywhere else. They were expelled and driven out of their homes in Arab countries and fled to Israel. (Naturally they never received any help from the UN.) So what do you want them to do? Should they go back to Iraq and Egypt and get attacked individually? They do prefer fighting back.
Nobody wants to be an ethnic or religious minority in the Arab world.
Look at Sudan or Iraq and see how well non-Arabs fared under Arab rule.
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If you don't know what "anti-Semitic" means look in up in a dictionary.
I hope not. This would make me evil, seeing that I am white. I brought that up because it is clear to me that Jews (and apparently Arabs) are not different from me racially.
Really? You brought up the concept of white people "stealing the homes" of hundreds of thousands of "Palestinians". So it seemed as if you saw a racial difference between two Caucasian peoples.
If you don't see a racial differece, why point out than one of the peoples is "white"? It wouldn't even matter if they were different.
(Ironically there are black Israelis, but they are all Jews.)
Essentially, my point is this: we are the same. You just have a different culture. It's like being Canadian versus American. So why is everyone so "racist" against each other here? I am not even racist. I don't really care who you are, as long as you share common interests with me. So I really can't understand how people of the same race can be so racist against each other.
Ask the guys who buys "Mein Kampf"?
If you are wondering about racism in the middle east, I suggest the following experiment:
Dress up as an obvious Arab, carry an Arab flag, and walk through a city in Israel.
Then, a week later, dress up as an obvious Jew, carry the Israeli flag, and walk through a city in an Arab country.
You'll be surprised how quickly you will understand what racism and anti-Semitism are.
I don't see how Jews were ever anything but white. Unless they were black Jews. But perhaps this was a response to a culture that views itself as "God's chosen people" and frowns on intermarriage with "heathens". If some white guy started calling me a heathen and implying that I'm somehow not as spiritual or some nonsense, I would probably think he was crazy.
White supremacists see Jews as non-white. Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem saw them as non-white.
And Jews are not the only culture that frowns on intermarriage. Catholics also don't do it (if they follow their faith) and neither do Muslims. I don't see anything wrong with it.
In Israel, of course, while it isn't possible to intermarry in the country, all foreign marriages, including gay marriages are recognised. So perhaps marriage restrictions is a bad example for a criticism of Israel.
And perhaps, as your opinions suggest you don't know that much about Judaism (which somehow doesn't stop you from judging it, and I think that's a problem). Jews do not believe that non-Jews are not "spiritual enough". Jews simply believe that non-Jews are not Jewish. The fact that nations see each other as different from each other has never been a problem, until the Jews did it, when it suddenly became a valid criticism to point out that they do.
Which Jew called you a heathen?
It seems you made up a lot of stuff about Jews and Israel and Judaism and somehow believe that you have a right to criticise Judaism for whatever you didn't care to look up before accepting it as fact.
As for the "chosen people", I do wonder... how can a people who constitute less than 0.5% of the world population be on the news all the time? Perhaps G-d didn't chose them, but the rest of the world certainly does.
