You always speak as if not only was the attachment of Jews to Israel farcical, but as if there were no Jews in Israel, when Jerusalem has had a Jewish majority or plurality since the Eighteenth Century at least, in modern times.
As for the land being "somebody else's home", it was the Turks who ruled, or rather misruled the land, whose capital was in Damascus. The local people never had sovereignty. Now, I have never heard you wax indignant about how the Turks oppressed other people, or about how the implacable hatred their policies created should impact modern politics. Indeed, I have heard you express no sympathy for the implacable hatred of the Serbs towards the Muslim Bosnians and Kosovars, those Turkish remnants/converts in the Balkans. But if you ask the motivation for this hatred, the Serbs will tell you that they are just doing the Lord's work against the Turk.
Yet somehow, when Jews enter the picture, the implacable hatred against them is excusable and it is the Israelis of today who should be making amends for it (as if that were possible short of suicide) - even though on any objective scale, the Jews' predicaments in the 20th century were far more dire than the Turks' and their desire for peaceful relations and treatment of minorities far, far better. |
