On 30 May 2001, at 8:22, Dan Minette wrote:
Only Israeli citizens vote in Israel. What this have to do with
race?
>A Jew from Queens can quickly become an Israelie citizen. A
>Palastinian in East Jerusalem is not a citizen, even if his family
?had lived in East Jerusalem for 10 generations. That is race
based.
Actually, Dan, that's not true.
East Jerusalem was formally annexed and the residents there thus
obtained Isralie citizenship.
Also, it depends on the definition of Judaism as a race, and not a
religion. Remember that in the UN resolution which created the
state of Israel, it said that Israel is the home of the *Jewish* people.
The non-Jewish citizens of Israel, except some of the Isralie arabs
like Israel just fine, being that it's a reprisentative democracy in the
middle of a bunch of kingdoms and dictatorships. Ask the Druze in
the Golan what they think of Israel sometime, for example ;)
Andy
Dawn Falcon
