Phil > most Jews would probably argue that not to support Israel and its policies completely is an anti-Jew stance, and works against the Jewish people in Israel.
In fact, there are and always were many Jews who opposed the idea of the State of Israel. Quite apart from it being against the tenets of the Jewish religion, it also places the Jew who lives in the diasporah in an impossibly hard predicament -- is he a citizen of Israel or of the country in which he lives? And, quite clearly, being a loyal citizen of one country means one cannot be a loyal citizen of another.
Of course, the Zionists have managed to get around this little problem by confusing Zionism ( = support for the State of Israel) with Judaism ( = observance of the historic Jewish religion). But if one goes a little deeper in no way does the Jewish religion lend support to the idea of a Jewish secular state. In fact, the basis of the Promised Land concept is a covenant whereby, if the Jews kept a number of laws and lead a particular type of life, the Messiah MAY come and lead them to the Promised Land. There is no suggestion or hint in Jewish religious texts (Torah) that the Jews could simply grab the land, in fact, steal it from the people who were living there, as they have done. Furthermore, the Jewish religion (Commandments) expressly prohibits activity of this sort. The idea that the State of Israel was given to the Jews by God is a lie but, as Goebbels is reputed to have said so eloquently, the bigger the lie and the more it is repeated the more people believe it. |
