Hum, you must have forgotten the unfortunate passages in the Old Testament where God commands you to wipe out whole groups of people, down to the men, women, children, and in some cases animals.

If one wants to question Israel’s right of return policies, isn’t it better to do so on legitimate grounds? I think there’s a real conversation to be had about whether it’s possible to be both a democracy and a religious state…but if one begins by asserting racism instead of by engaging the reality of the religious question, I don’t think the conversation will go far.

Well, what would you call it? Very lovely to be polite and all but Palestinians can not be buried in the towns of their birth because they are not the right religion. Yasir Arafat wasn’t allowed by the Arab killer Sharon to be buried in Jerusalem. No amount of doublespeak negates the racism of not being able to return to the town of one’s birth to be buried.. The American Mobius deleted my comment on his blog because he apparently thought that I was denigrating the Canadian Lisa by pointing out that my friends from Jaffa, indigenous to Palestine, could not return to the place of their birth, but Mobius and Lisa, from the US and Canada could just traipse on over to Palestine and become instant citizens. In fact, the “stupid” Mobius (boy that’s an understatement, Haitham) loves to look for anti-Semitism among Palestinians and loves to tell them exactly how they should feel about suicide bombing. He also likes to accuse us of not telling the truth about our roots in Palestine. Well, he “stands with us” so we must toe his reprehensible Zionist line and fit his notion of what a “good” Palestinian is. This is the Palestine expert, who said that he’d never heard of Zionists destroying mosques.

Jews so-called self-determination has come at the expense of the indigenous people. And it’s not self-determination; it may not “help” dialogue but let’s call it what it is, colonial racism. And I do not believe that the Jews have a right to self-determination on property that they stole. Enough with being polite; I’ve had my fill of hate-filled Zionists this weekend going out of their way to discredit any activist who is not a “house” Palestinian. Our children are being killed, our land is being stolen, and all sorts of human rights are being violated and have been violated for more than fifty-seven years because of racist colonialism.

Thanks for listening to my perspective.

I do think the “right of return” policy poses some interesting challenges, and I understand why it’s problematic for Palestinians who feel angry that they don’t feel welcome in Israel while Jews from around the world are welcomed. And I know that many people, Palestinians among them, question whether Israel can be simultaneously a democracy and a religious state. These are all worth talking about. But calling the right of return “racist” doesn’t help the dialogue, in my opinion.

Thanks for listening to my perspective.

http://www.nkusa.org Is their web site. Nice pictures of very observant Jews with signs denouncing Israel and supporting Palestinians.

However, I’ll tell what, I’ll add that link of your at the end of the original post, how about that ;-)

Can you please add this link to “Possible Related Posts”?
http://iheartamman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-am-jewish.html