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Ok. Wikipedia is really a wonderfull source of knowledge although only in a "readers diggest" style.
The sentence that Jews WERE a people,a cultural and religious group is not correct.
First of all Jews ARE a nation.There are a lot of differences between a people and a nation , mainly by that that a people is generally a conglomerate of nations.
The Israelis are a people but the Jews are a nation.
Every people or nation is defined by a lot of charecteristic between them being their cultural and religious life.
The same applies to Jews as a nation not as a cultural or a religious group.
Now what concerns the definitions quoted from the Wikipedia about Ashkenazi versus Sephardic Jews,I would like to add that the differences between the two groups are historic and are maintaining some genetic and cultural differences even today in Israel.
However they see themselves as categorically of the same nation.There are some differences in ritual practices but the religious prayers ,the hollydays and the Hebrew language are definitely the same.
All this being explained I would like to come back to our good friend Ahmedinajad.
His treat to whipe Israel off the map is a racist threat more then other racism we have known.
The american racism was (still partly is) an ugly chapter of America's history but we have never heard from any leader,even from the dark period of the enslavery of Africans,thar one should kill them all.
The racism in South Africa was condemnable in every human or moral aspect but even the fiercest South African racist did not threat to whipe all black people off the map.
It was one man in our modern history who threated to kill all the Jews of Europe and almost succeeded
and this man was Hitler.
His theory of a world conspiracy of the Jews against Germany ,the Judeo-Plutocracy as he named it even in his last will,just a few moments before his suicide differs only a little from Ahmedinajad's theory of a world conspiracy of the "Zionists".
There is no politically correct to call the world conspirators "Jews" so let call them "Zionists" with the clear allusion of Zionism equal to racism.
This equation is a slander regretably being accepted by left oriented political organizations.
There is a profound and very complex conflict berween Jews and Arabs about the same piece of land with a totally area of about 24,000 square kilometers,but this conflict is by no means racist from either side.
Only an extreme religious Islamic leader as this Neo-Hitler can use as a pretext the Palestinian problem which has no contingency whatsoever to Iran, except the failures of the Ayatollah regime against his own people . The demonizing of others in order to justify your own failures is a tool as old as history
and would have been in this case of less importance except that the threat is incumbing the danger of starting a nuclear conflict.
Most of the Arab states perceive this danger against themselves but they are doing to little in order to stop the cataclysm.
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The Jews have NEVER been a race.
Jews WERE a people,a cultural and religious group.
Ok. Wikipedia is really a wonderfull source of knowledge although only in a "readers diggest" style.
The sentence that Jews WERE a people,a cultural and religious group is not correct.
First of all Jews ARE a nation.There are a lot of differences between a people and a nation , mainly by that that a people is generally a conglomerate of nations.
The Israelis are a people but the Jews are a nation.
Every people or nation is defined by a lot of charecteristic between them being their cultural and religious life.
The same applies to Jews as a nation not as a cultural or a religious group.
Now what concerns the definitions quoted from the Wikipedia about Ashkenazi versus Sephardic Jews,I would like to add that the differences between the two groups are historic and are maintaining some genetic and cultural differences even today in Israel.
However they see themselves as categorically of the same nation.There are some differences in ritual practices but the religious prayers ,the hollydays and the Hebrew language are definitely the same.
All this being explained I would like to come back to our good friend Ahmedinajad.
His treat to whipe Israel off the map is a racist threat more then other racism we have known.
The american racism was (still partly is) an ugly chapter of America's history but we have never heard from any leader,even from the dark period of the enslavery of Africans,thar one should kill them all.
The racism in South Africa was condemnable in every human or moral aspect but even the fiercest South African racist did not threat to whipe all black people off the map.
It was one man in our modern history who threated to kill all the Jews of Europe and almost succeeded
and this man was Hitler.
His theory of a world conspiracy of the Jews against Germany ,the Judeo-Plutocracy as he named it even in his last will,just a few moments before his suicide differs only a little from Ahmedinajad's theory of a world conspiracy of the "Zionists".
There is no politically correct to call the world conspirators "Jews" so let call them "Zionists" with the clear allusion of Zionism equal to racism.
This equation is a slander regretably being accepted by left oriented political organizations.
There is a profound and very complex conflict berween Jews and Arabs about the same piece of land with a totally area of about 24,000 square kilometers,but this conflict is by no means racist from either side.
Only an extreme religious Islamic leader as this Neo-Hitler can use as a pretext the Palestinian problem which has no contingency whatsoever to Iran, except the failures of the Ayatollah regime against his own people . The demonizing of others in order to justify your own failures is a tool as old as history
and would have been in this case of less importance except that the threat is incumbing the danger of starting a nuclear conflict.
Most of the Arab states perceive this danger against themselves but they are doing to little in order to stop the cataclysm.
