--- In [email protected], guyfawkes91 <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > US support depends on the shrinking minority of people > who think that by allowing Israelis to claim "the > promised land" it will bring the second coming and the > rapture and all that.
Uh, no, it doesn't. They're only a small percentage of U.S. supporters of Israel. Does the term "neocon" ring a bell? <snip> > The bare fact of the matter is that if the world knew then > what it knows now, Israel would never have been created. > It was a mistake to allow a country to be carved out of > other people's territory on the basis of someone's brush > with schiziod delusions back in the Bronze Age. The idea > that a group of people should "own" a slice of real estate > because one of their ancestors had voices in their head a > few thousand years ago is quite clearly wrong. Regardless of the validity of that premise, the point was to make sure Jews had a refuge after the Holocaust. > The entire ethos of Israel is based on the notion that > they are "god's chosen people" and therefore other > people are "untermenschen", lesser beings. Criticism of Israel's actions toward the Palestinians is, IMHO, largely justified and does not, as is sometimes alleged, qualify as anti-Semitism. The comment I just quoted, however, does--not least because the term "untermenschen" was the Nazis' infamous term for the Jews and the justification for the attempt at genocide. The biblical concept of the "Chosen People" had nothing to do with racial superiority; it had to do with the willingness of the Israelites to agree to obey God's commandments. There may well be a segment of Israelis who think it means Jews are superior, but they're very distinctly Off the Program as far as Judaism is concerned.
