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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Thu May 8 17:06:00 2014, in response to Re: Palestinian university students’ trip to Auschwitz causes uproar, posted by Nilet on Wed May 7 15:16:39 2014. And where, exactly are these million Jewish refugees coming from? One doesn't typically predict in advance when crises that result in refugee problems will pop up, one has to be ready for them. You can probably find a million members of a demographic being oppressed in a particular area right now— how come Jews are so special they get an artificially enforced country on the off-chance they might be oppressed in the future? Jews have been oppressed for centuries, perhaps they wouldn't have been if they had somewhere safe to flee to. Because there are individual rights not subject to majority vote. Come on, you know this. A majority of Americans might well vote to make America a Christian nation if they could but I doubt you'd support that. The state can have an official religion even if people are free to practice their own religion. No one is suggesting that non-Jews be denied freedom of worship within Israel's borders. OTOH, the United States has a different stance with regard to an official religion, so while yes, some number of fundamentalists might like to change the status quo, it is unlikely to happen. I'm not aware of humanists being persecuted the way that Jews have been over the centuries, but feel free to prove me wrong... |
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