Oh and one last thing, we poor unwanted Christians, particulary Orthodox Christians live in Israel for 2 thousand years now. Israel is not a Jewish only state.
"Oh and one last thing, we poor unwanted Christians, particulary Orthodox Christians live in Israel for 2 thousand years now. Israel is not a Jewish only state."
Israel is the Jewish State. Are you surprised if you are unwelcome given your history? Israel is meant to be a safe-haven - it cannot be that while it lets in the very people from whom Jews have been fleeing.
Christians in Israel account for less than 1/2 of 1% of the population. Orthodox Christians account for a small percentage of that number. By contrast, Israel is 81% Jewish and 18% Muslim.
Israel is a Jewish state and the homeland of the Jewish people. Any attempt to deny that will come off as anti-Zionist and quite possibly anti-Semitic. Add a denial of Jewish history vis a vis Russian anti-Semitism and you really come off looking like something I don't think you want to look like.
Oh, and regarding forced conscription: only Jews were kidnapped from the age of 12 up and forced to serve a minimum of 25 years, with a forced indoctrination into Christianity. That is different from "all ethnic groups".
Christian worship and churches are safe in Israel. Look at what the muslims now do to Bethlehem, now under Islamic control.
I am starting to realize why the "Putin for Dictator" crowd is so passionate. Most of them are linked to the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). According to ROC doctrine, the Czar is supposed to head the Church. As such, all true ROC members, both inside and outside Russia, long for a return of the Czar. Then it should come as no surprise that these same people want to imput Czar-like qualities to Putin. Putin, for his part, is playing these unsuspecting ROC believers like a finely tuned fiddle. End Result?...Putin can do no wrong.
Message to ROC members...Putin is not the Czar.