Re: Ugly Looney Labour Anti-Semitism Rears Again
Originally Posted by
Puddle Duck
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That is not the full answer ! Maybe you can elaborate.
Bearing in mind there are Jews and Muslims living in ,near enough, every country.
If like yourself and Muddy consider the Bible to be a book of fairy tales, with no belief,as has been said so many times, and there is no allegiance to the Torah, on which Judaism is founded and central to the Jewish religion, then that in itself is anti-Semitic through the simple fact of denial .
The Jews are a group of people who share the same religion. As with muslims, their religion is also their culture.
Muslims, although they exist in most countries of the world, have not one, but several 'homelands': countries which are dominated by their religion and culture.
The same goes for Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists and, until recently, Christians; the latter, of course, have pretty much given up their traditional 'homelands' to many other races and religions which, in many cases, are slowly but surely approaching parity of numbers and, consequently, influence. However, that is another story which I shall not pursue here.
Jews, until after the Second World War, were exceptional in that they had no homeland of their own, but instead lived amongst people of other religions and cultures in many different lands.
I happen to believe, and I'm sure you will disagree, that the Jews had a right to have a (small) country of their own. The question was, where? It has been shown many times that what was once called Palestine has always been home to many Jews throughout history, and so it was seen to be the most logical place to give them. No other country lost that land in their favour; as has already been explained, it and several other middle eastern countries were formed from the Ottoman Empire.
Only one tiny piece of land was given to the Jews for their homeland; the vast majority of that Empire went to muslims.
I hope I have elaborated sufficiently. If not, please ask specifically what you want me to explain.