re: #31 researchok

Do you consider Ashkenazi Jews to be of the same stock as the Jews of antiquity? Do you believe Israel si their home?

Yes, Israel was the home of the Jews 2,000 years ago. There was a large number of Jews who lived outside of Israel before the Romans did their ethnic cleansing also. Do Jews who left Israel on their own count the plce as home the same as those kicked out? (and we don’t know if those kicked out went to the Persian empire over the Roman one). You see history is complicted.

In any case the Arabs (nor the Christians) kicked the Jews out of their homeland.

Also, Israel is a UN member and has a right to exist as all UN members do. I keep getting asked this like I will declare Israel some evil state which it is not. I do have a problem with American zealots of Israel be they Christian end time kooks or knee jerk defenders and I don’t like the religous kookery used to justify Israel’s existence (UN charter and the Westphalian sovereignty is good enough).