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Monday, January 5, 2009 12:00 AM

Why Israelis support the Gaza offensive

Israel's post-traumatic war is not just about stopping Hamas rockets, but about repairing reputations -- and erasing the stain of failure.

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  • Monday, January 5, 2009 03:29 PM

    Yellowpithecus

    yer funny.

    Tay-Sachs is predominant in people of Eastern-European descent. Of course, if a family has it, and they remain Jewish, it looks like a "Jewish" disease. If a disease is predominant in the Italian Peninsula, does that make it a Catholic disease? (Which raises an interesting point - the shell game of the definition of "Jewish." Is it a race, a religion, or a culture? That entirely depends on which one will make a critic look like an anti-Semite.)

    There is no such thing as a "Jewish" race. Jews marry Jews, so it stays in the gene pool. It occurs in non-Jews too, unless you define "Jew" as someone who is able to get Tay-Sachs, then the definition is circular.

    If anything, Tay-Sachs is a good example of how Jews are so insular (elitist and racist) and refuse to integrate into other cultures.

    "You quoted it, thus you are claiming its truth."

    No, quoting an author (which I didn't, I just posted a link to an article about the book he wrote, an article in an Israeli newspaper) does not imply "claiming it's truth." And Hitler is dead. Dr. Sands is very much alive and well, and I am sure he has a public email address. He is waiting for responses from people like you, if you read his final quote in the article.

    "The double standard that somehow you think a converted Jew is less than a real Jew. Yet, I doubt you'd list a naturalized American as less American than one born in the USA."

    Whatever. Then I guess the Jews are the Master Race. The Chosen Ones, uh, I mean, the Cohen Ones.

    Let them enjoy their ethnic cleansing...

    If you are interested, I can point you to an academic paper which proves that Palestinians and Israelis are genetically identical. The worldwide non-Jewish non-Conspiracy ruined his career and his life, but that is another story.

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