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Tell me if I am wrong; the majority of Jews in the US are Jews in name only. They are secular Jews with Jewish names who really don't care about Israel.

Anyone believe the Spielbergs, Redstones, or Eisners really care about Israel? I've always sensed a tremendous difference between the majority of Jews in the US and the Jews who put their lives on the line in Israel to fulfill their destiny. Any comments?

MoodyBlu

9 posted on 10/24/2004 10:11:39 PM PDT by MoodyBlu (Still searching for the elusive tagline...)
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To: MoodyBlu
Tell me if I am wrong; the majority of Jews in the US are Jews in name only. They are secular Jews with Jewish names who really don't care about Israel.

Some of them may be religious Jews, but they are not orthodox; they're reform or conservative, at most. These are politically pretty liberal forms of Judaism. They may well care about Israel, in the sense that they like the concept of Israel, like going there, like sending their kids there to work and study and maybe learn a little Hebrew. But they feel about Israel the way they feel about the US: they hate its values and policies and are ashamed of the decisions of the politicians who are struggling to protect the land and its people. These rich American Jews are naive. Like most liberals, they suppose that Arabs can be bargained with, reasoned with, negotiated with, and that if Sharon and Bush would just give the Palestinians enough land and money, the warfare would stop. This is, of course, absurd, but it explains their disaffection with both Bush and Israel. They just don't understand real life, since they lead such a rarefied existence here.

10 posted on 10/24/2004 10:27:52 PM PDT by Capriole
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To: MoodyBlu
Being Jewish actually requires work, and faith. Just having the name or a Jewish mother may technically make you a Jew but it doesn't make you Jewish. They can rotely recite a kaddish but they don't live by the Torah. They play on the Sabbath, they teach 'tolerance' in their own households for violations of G-d's laws and they fail to, as the Torah requires, put the words of G-d on their doors and gates and teach them to their children. For far too many "jews", eating at a deli is the extent of the effort they put into keeping the oldest religion in this hemisphere alive. Sad.

The oldest political philosophy on this planet is anti-semitism. It has been around for over 2000 years. There have been numerous attempts to commit genocide against the Jews and yet there are still those whose parents escaped those attempts who side with evildoers who would be the next to commit genocide. Hard to believe, but sadly still true.

11 posted on 10/24/2004 10:56:01 PM PDT by bpjam (I don't know what a neo-con is and neither does anybody else.)
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To: MoodyBlu

I have long believed, that America received the bulk of the "stupid tribe" of Jews...

For years, I have been attempting to negotiate a trade with Israel - to swap some of ours for some of theirs...

Semper Fi


15 posted on 10/25/2004 12:25:41 AM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek...But I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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