re: #231 kirkspencer

No, because that has connotations with which I disagree. My team right or wrong, especially when you’re allegedly part of two different teams, is at heart worse than just “I was following orders.” It’s “I was just following my team’s leaders’ suggestions.” And if your team gets a rotten apple in a leadership position, it destroys your credibility.

I have some specific things Israel’s current government supports that I abhor. The fact that the Likud is pushing to go beyond current limits on those things (specific example: settlements. specific example: denial of citizenship to non-jews even if born in area and married to jews.) is to me unacceptable. They are part of the portion of the Likud who say that Arabs are animals who should be given no rights beyond the right to be exterminated.

In other words, it’s a position wholly in line with Geller and Spencer, held as part of the official government position of the state of Israel.

A person who sets Israel as the always-first priority is supporting these positions. I think they’re wrong.

I don’t think that everyone who supports Israel is a cheerleader for each and every policy of the ruling government.

Whatever you may think of the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding Israeli citizenship, can you at least agree that each country has the right to determine its own requirements for citizenship? If a Japanese citizen marries a foreign national who is also an Occidental, does that person receive automatic Japanese citizenship? Do you even know, or care, what the requirements are for receiving Japanese citizenship? If Japan deny citizenship to Occidentals or Koreans who marry Japanese, would you get all worked up about it?