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- From: isaac@etrog.se.citri.edu.au (Isaac Balbin)
- Subject: Re: Israel must return the deportees!
- Message-ID: <isaac.725783538@etrog>
- Organization: Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute
- References: <9212282141.AA19891@cyclone.sbi.com> <531@owl.ukc.ac.uk> <RLK.92Dec28221058@underprize.think.com> <533@owl.ukc.ac.uk> <1992Dec31.050605.14968@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 06:32:18 GMT
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- >In article <533@owl.ukc.ac.uk> dat@ukc.ac.uk (D.A.Turner) writes:
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- >>Most of the territory of Palestine was seized in 1948. Three quarters
- >>of a million Palestinians were driven from their homes, in an "ethnic
- >>cleansing" similar to what is now going on in Bosnia. The remainder
- >>became second class citizens in a Zionist state. This event is called
- >>in Arabic "El Naqbar" - the Catastrophe. The shock waves of that event
- >>are still echoing around the arab world. If you want to understand the
- >>Israel/Palestine dispute, the key year is 1948, not 1967.
- >>
- >>David Turner
- >>(A British Jew who does NOT support Israel)
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- Professor Turner, I assume of Miranda fame, you seem to use the word Zionist
- above in a manner which is quite different to Jewish. To me Israel is a Jewish
- State first. It has a place in my understanding and education in Judaism.
- Tell us please about your understanding of Judaism. What is Zion to a British
- Computer Science Professor who does not support Israel? How does the concept
- of a land for Jews fit in with your understanding of Judaism?
- What should it look like? Should it exist at all?
- Do you believe that Jews should stay as a separate nation? Should they
- marry non-Jewesses? What are your solutions to the problems of assimilation?
- I ask all this because I was proud that you were proud to call yourself
- a Jew. I disagree vehemently with your miscarriage of history, but I'd like
- to see if we have some common understanding of Judaism at least.
-
- Thanks for your time.
-