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From: jho@ihlpa.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Nationality and Racism
Message-ID: <1184@ihlpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 13:24:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 13:24:54 1986
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> Why do you think it important that Israel be ruled by Jews,
> if you don't want Judaism to have a part in it?  Is it simply
> a desire to have your own friends in power, for a change?
> 
> 	Frank Silbermann

The reason is that it is important that Israel should be Jewish
is that oppressed Jews would have were to go.  As you recall,
Jews had no escape from the Nazis. Even the US did not accept them.

I think religion should be a part of those who practice the religion.
Why should those who do not believe should be coerced?  I think
Frank like many others does not seem to distinguish between religion
and nationalism.  Since many in Israel do not accept the premise of
religion it cannot be considered as a uniting force.  And because
it is imposed on the secular Jewish population it is a source of
disharmony.
-- 
Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois,  Mail: ihnp4!ihlpa!jho