re: #146 Bagua

Perhaps you would prefer to cut off the “Jewish State” part of Israel, as would most anti-Israel Muslims and certainly the “palestinians”.

I’d suggest we leave the ‘Exist as a Jewish State’ part intact as a core reality.

What if a majority of the inhabitants of Israel are not, in fact, Jewish? Should it still remain a Jewish state?

I don’t like any aspect of a state that holds to any sort of racial, cultural, or religious purity. I won’t make any exceptions for that, not even for my own people. I strongly support Israel’s existence, think it’s unfathomably stupid and arrogant and hypocritical of the Arab world not to recognize it as a legitimate state. I think that they are in a nearly impossible position with the Palestinians where no option leaves them looking good or able to act in a perfectly good way. That doesn’t mean I have to accept that Israel as any more than Israel.