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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't blame us for Bill Maher, who was raised Catholic and didn't even realize his mom was Jewish until he was in high school. Unless you're saying anyone with Jewish DNA is automatically biased on the Middle East, whatever Maher's many problems are have nothing to do with whether his ancestors were Jews.[/quote]

lol he has a deed to a few square blocks of Jerusalem(address TBD) because you know he is Jewish. There is no way to justify Israel without “genetic” memory of Jews according to Jews.[/quote]

Ah, okay, so basically no Jews are allowed to weigh in on any of this because we're automatically suspect. Got it. I think Maher is an idiot, and I think much worse than that of the people running Israel's government, its war, and its illegal settlements in the West Bank, but I suppose that since I'd be eligible for citizenship tomorrow if for some ungodly reason I wanted it, that's not relevant. (It's citizenship, not a deed of land, that Jews are eligible for, btw.)[/quote]

I thought your response was fine, and then I cringed when I got to your use of the term citizenship - matter-of-fact use with the full and complete knowledge that millions of indigenous people are deprived of that privilege because their version of the fairytale isn’t the exact same one you subscribe to.[/quote]

Yes, that's one of my objections to Israeli government policies -- that millions of people live under occupation with no right to citizenship in any nation. I don't necessarily object to giving automatic citizenship in Israel to Jews. Palestinians, Druze, and Christians in actual Israeli territory are also able to be citizens, and I assume a Palestinian state would provide automatic citizenship to descendants of 1948 refugees, too. (I don't think one binational state in that space is going to be possible for a very long time, because there are too many lunatics in positions of power on both sides.)[/quote]

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