Posted on 12/28/2016 7:00:27 PM PST by kevcol
"While Secretary Kerry mentioned Gaza in his speech, he seems to have forgotten the history of the settlements in Gaza, where the Israeli government forced settlers to withdraw from all settlements and the Palestinians responded by sending rockets from Gaza into Israel," Schumer said in a statement. "This is something that people of all political stripes in Israel vividly remember.
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Soros is a second generation atheist, a declared Magyar, and a former member of the Arrow Cross; not a Jew.
According to the wonderful Dennis Prager and others, "Jewish" is an ethnicity and "Judaism" is a religion. Do a Google search and you will find the same information. One is a Jew by birth in the same way that one is Italian, German, Polish, English, etc., by birth. Ethnic Jews may or may not practice the religion of Judaism, and people of other ethnicities who convert to Judaism are Jews in the religious sense. Karl Marx was an ethnic Jew by birth, yet he hated the Jews. This is fact, not a slur in any way.
It is also a fact that a great many Jews are politically left of center all the way to communist. Why that is so is, to me, perplexing. For whatever reason, they believe in statism despite the fact that all-powerful states have done enormous to harm Jewish people throughout history.
I can't speak for New York, but they sure are in Los Angeles where I lived for 40 years before moving to North Carolina in 2015.
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