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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (163127)	5/26/2005 4:30:47 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

" Israel still exists because of its strong army. The fact remains: there are 5 million Jews and 300 million Arabs in the Middle East, and Israel has less than 0.1% of the landmass of the Middle East. Israel is tiny, and has been saved not by its strength, but by the ineptitude of the Arabs at waging modern war." And the Jews always knew this so thats why the nukes.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (163127)	5/26/2005 4:43:17 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't believe in religion as an ethnicity. To my knowledge Jews and Parsis of India are the only two people who have confused religion with ethnicity. People can change their religions rather quickly, as the Khazars apparently did long ago (and most of European Jews seem to be their descendents and not from the Egypt). Changing one's ethnicity takes at least 4-10 generations. But even assuming that somehow being a Jew makes you related to people as diverse as Russians and Ethiopians who share the same religion, how related to them are you? Arguing Judaism as an ethnicity is tantamount to the "one drop" argument. I know that in my own family I have German, French, and Australian relatives. I suspect that given a the movement of history, if I dig far enough, I probably have some Turkish or Arab DNA in me too. Does that make me a Turk or an Arab? Why would a single strand of Jewish DNA through history take precedence over the slew of other DNAs? Russian Jews certainly look a lot more Russian to me than the middle eastern Jews. BTW, you are not even remotely close when comparing Jews to Kurds. Under pressure or not, allowed into government or not, the Kurds have stood their ground no matter what. And one look at most Kurds and you can tell they are from the same ethnic group. You can't say the same about Jews.