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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran

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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (13240)11/20/2006 1:36:29 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
Crimson > Ziodämmerung.

I agree, and an excellent name, too.

> Netanyahu told the visiting heavy hitters that their vessel was sinking. With intermarriage and assimilation swamping the good ship Diaspora, there is "no future" for Jews living outside Israel.

.... or anywhere else for that matter, and, IMO, for two main reasons:

(a) the basis of Judaism is hogwash and Zionism is even more so.
(b) there are only 12 million Jews in a world of over 6 billion people (0.2%). This figure is estimated to diminish annually by about 500,000 on account of death, assimilation and low reproductive activity. So, what's the point of "being" Jewish when the "species" is about to die out?

> And today it bumps up against a different spiritual vector that has made capacious headway among North American Jews, namely, the practice of Asian-derived systems of self-cultivation.

Precisely so. It's so much easier -- and a lot more peaceful -- "being" a buddhist than a Jew or a Zionist. And, when one is dead, one ends up at exactly the same place, anyway -- and without all the bullshit.

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