Elroy, Israel is smack dab in the middle of the 1.2 billion Muslims
So you're of the opinion that the modern state of Israel should have never been formed?
Well, as I've said. I'm neither Jewish nor Muslim, so am outside to the whole issue, and I wasn't alive when it got "formed" (if that what you call it when a bunch of people declare themselves a nation, and the neighboring nations disagree, but Bolivia (the UN) agrees), so for me it's not that big a deal.
But my objective outsider's view is that the opinions of the 1.2 billion people who surround Israel and have a view on Israel's existance should be given more weight than they get in the current system of world governance.
If you are what I understand you to be on this board (a Korean American Christian...), then I would expect you to understand the whole issue as little as I do. There are ~60 Muslim countries, so who cares if there is one Jewish country (I don't)? but evidently they (1/2 billions people) do.
The 60 Muslim countries think the one Jewish country should not be there, smack in the middle of those Muslim countries, where before it was a multi-ethnic, multi-religious region. That makes sense to me. And as an American, I don't like the idea of a "religious, ethnic" nation. I like the idea of a nation where all men are treated equal, based on merit, regardless of religion or family. Israel has some of those characteristics, but their immigration policy (which defines who gets to be an Israeli) violates them.
At the end of the day, I'm on SI because I like talking about tech stocks, not politics, so being neither Jewish nor Muslim, I hope they can solve their problems themselves. |
