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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)4/25/2011 11:42:36 am PDT

re: #451 marjoriemoon

Of course they are as much citizens as anyone. They have the same rights as everyone else. But Israel will never mean the same to a Muslim or Christian than it will mean to a Jew.

But then there is a concept of “Israel” that includes more than the Jewish people, right? There’s a concept of Israel that includes all the citizens of Israel. In that concept, the people and the land are not one; or ‘the people’ would mean all the citizens, not just the Jewish— or religiously Jewish— ones.