On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:27:15 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2014-10-22 11:17 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>
>> So, in your opinion, Israel has no right to exist? Remember it's your
>> precious United Nations who partitioned the area, giving a portion to
>> the Arabs (which Jordan stole) and a portion to the Jews which later
>> became the State of Israel.
>>
>> I have been to Israel. I have close family there It is most certainly a
>> Jewish state. If it didn't exist, there would be no where for Jews to
>> go when people like you try to extinguish them. You are the Nazi here.
>>
>
>
>Sorry Janet, but I can't equate a lack of sympathy for Israel or Zionism
>to antisemitism.

You'll always get that if you're critical.

>The partitioning started with the British as they
>picked up the pieces of the crumbling Ottoman empire. I appreciate the
>desire for a Jewish homeland, but that is not where the Jews came from
>originally. It where the place where some of them settled with the
>blessing of their god who they think promised it to them. There were
>other people there. The Jews were expelled from there a long time ago
>and then the Zionist movement started lobbying for a return to the area.
> Meanwhile, there were other people living there.
>
>
>Imagine what would happen if the UN or some other body decided that
>Texas would be a great place for.... let's say the Tamils They had
>been fighting a civil war for years and there is a Tamil diaspora. It
>may not be enough for them to have sought refuge in countries around the
>world, and they think that God promised them some land in Texas. They
>start showing up by the thousands and take over an area... with UN
>sanction. You know that the locals are going to be upset.

It's inevitable. And I have no time for a nation based on religion
taken to that level.