What is the ethnic mix in Modern Israel?



She is stunning, Grey.

Avram Horowitz wrote on May 26^th, 2012 at 5:50pm:


I thought Jews belonged to many different races.

And do these Jews have as much right to settle in Israel as any other Jew.

So jews are not a race. Its a religion. Jewish. Religious. Nasty xtian OT religious.

SOB

Avram Horowitz wrote on May 26^th, 2012 at 6:20pm:


What is your opinion?

Avram Horowitz wrote on May 26^th, 2012 at 10:23am:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on May 26^th, 2012 at 12:58pm:


I would have thought calling someone a "Jew boy," implied that they were "a Jew who is a boy," that the guy is a little young and makes some rash statements from time to time, which doesn't endear him to those on this forum.

My impression, however, based on his response to one of my posts, is that this guy isn't a kid. I do think, though, that the idiosyncrasies of Israeli society (class warfare?) has influenced much of his world view and leads to him making comments that would be "politically incorrect" in our society.

MOTR wrote on May 26^th, 2012 at 11:37am:


Exactly. The problem isn't Judaism. It's Zionism. I've been reading things about Judaism in the last two or three years and Judaism as a religion has far better things to offer than Zionism. Zionism is a recent phenomenon. Judaism has been around far longer than that.

Some Jews are absolutely against Zionism, like followers of the Satmar Rebbe. The Satmar's are an Ashkenazi Haredi group. Haredis are very traditional and conservative Jews. One of the claims of Jewish anti-Zionists is that the Zionists are mainly secular and atheist Jews with very little association with their religion, and that Zionism had "nothing" to do with Judaism. Some anti-Zionists sites even go so far as to claim that "the Zionists funded the Holocaust."

There was a lot more opposition to Zionism in the Jewish collective in the early 20th century, much more than today. The 1st Jewish governor general of Australia was one of those people who opposed Zionism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Isaacs

....... and then there's Neturei Karta ..........

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on May 26^th, 2012 at 12:40pm:


The one example I remember is Catch The Fire Ministries. A Christian preacher likened Muslims to devils and demons and was sued. Anyone remember that?

Grey wrote on May 26^th, 2012 at 4:28pm:


There's another group: the Mizrahi.

http://www.meforum.org/707/post-zionism-and-the-sephardi-question

Israel is a viable, thriving, successful country despite being under siege.

No Muslim country is viable if it is Islamic. That way lies ruin. You can't be Islamic a successful,  post-Middle Ages. Modernity and Islam are deadly enemies. That's the struggle we are living through. Islam is going to die because it cannot survive modernity.

Modernity has defeated communism and fascism. Islamism is next.