ahmedinajad

[josef rosenkranz]

Should we call Israel 'Jewland'?

Yor question derives from ignorance and bears a bad smell which reminds other times.
I don't know your nationality but I bet that one can find for every one derisible names.

But the essence of the question is close to reality .Yes Israel is the homeland of Jews and every Jew throughout the world has the right, by Israeli law, to repatriate himself and become instantly an Israeli citizen.

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[quote='josef rosenkranz' pid='17514' dateline='1242668111']
The Israelis are a people but the Jews are a nation.

Surely this should be the other way around?

Really, I think the word "Jew" isn't as well definable as something like "Scotsman" or "jehovah's witness".

To me, "Jew" simply means someone who practises the religion of judaism.

That's just the theory of all people who deny the Jews the right of a homeland,saying that they are a religious group living as citizens in many countries so why this despicable Zionist tendency to occupy a land which does belong to the Palestinians and not to them? Right?
People of good faith who maintain this theory seem to forget that the Jews did not land on Earth from the outer space but originated and lived for nearly 900 years in the same land called by them as "land of Israel"
True there is a conflict between the former owner of the land who leaved it or was forced to leave it 1900 years ago and the people who remained there almost all the time.
Who is right in this conflict is a most complex matter which in the frame of our forum is surely not possible to be solved.

That's why I maintain (after some thought about the way in which I use the word, and how others use it) that threatening to destroy Jews cannot be racist.

It makes me angry as if this formulation of " treatening to destroy the Jews" weighing as if one speaks about the destruction of bugs should be considered as racist or not.
The Holocaust was racist and every threatening of the same kind made by this mad dog Ahmedinajad has just the same purpose whether formally speaking it is racist or not.
I saw yesterday on the TV the speech he made in front of an immense crowd when he announced the launching of a new rocket for a distance of 2000 kilometers and as a response the crowd began to chant "death for A merica" and "death for Israel. You may call such a performance by every name you wish for the Jews it's racism of it's most abject nature.