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To: Stevefoder who wrote (477947)	10/18/2003 7:10:38 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You wrote:<font color=blue>"Being a Jew does not make one of a particular race. The Jewish faith is a religion. There are Jews of many races."<font color=black> I feel that Jews represent a race with many sub-sects of that race. Historically, at the time of Christ, while most Jews converted to Christianity, today's modern day Jewish "race" came from a relatively small number of Jewish families, who decided not to accept Jesus Christ as their God, and chose to remain as Jews. Since it was a relatively small number of families, many of today's Jews have been handed down the same inherited characteristics. Many families, at the time of Christ, split. Some members of the same family became Christians and the others stayed as Jews. That is why many of today's Christians also have some of the same inherited characteristics as some Jews. Plus... there were Jews in other regions who weren't effected by the Jewish movement into Christianity. Thus the many subsects of Jews. Can today's Jews be considered a "race"? Since so many Jews have such common bonds, it is quite logical to consider Jews a race. Reference: pbs.org You wrote:<font color=blue>"Many Jews are Zionists. Zionists can be of any race. So Zionism is not racism. You may define it as religious intolerance, but not racism."<font color=black> There are many Christian Zionists. But...... how can a belief that Jews should be able to live free, in their own country, be considered religious intolerance? AntiSemitism and persecution has forced Jews to need to control their own destiny. If it weren't for Israel, many more Jews would be dead right now. Besides that, the Israeli Arabs have a higher standard of living and more civil rights than in almost all Arab countries. History shows that minorities that don't control their own destiny, don't live too long. An example of this is the Armenian genocide, which occured at the hands of the Turkish Muslims starting in 1914. Hitler used the fact that the world looked the other way while one million Armenians were butchered, as justification and confidence for slaughtering Jews. You wrote:<font color=blue>"Palestinians and most Jewish Israelis are of essentially the same race. That is why suicide bombers are able to infiltrate into Israel. When an Israeli hates Palestinian it does not make him a racist. He could be called a bigot, but not a racist."<font color=black> I disagree. Arabs are a separate race, a completely different race than most Judeo-Christians. You wrote:<font color=blue>"Sylester, you are very intolerant of others and assume the worst of a man's motives when is opinion is different than yours. That is as bad as racism. Racism is about ignorance. Your intolerance is the same."<font color=black> Sylvester is of the same species as the weasel. Message 19414352