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| Posted by: | Lucille Grant | |
| Date/Time: | 16/05/24 10:02:00 |
| 'Do you believe that Israel has a right to exist?' That is the question many pro Palestinians refuse to answer. 'From the river to the sea' means the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state. This is a fact. Today's Guardian has an interesting article regarding the makeup of Israeli Jews, for those who are interested: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/15/israelis-go-back-to-europe-slogan. It's worth the full read but here are a few highlights: 'Of Israeli Jews alive today, 80% were born in Israel. A majority of Israel’s Jews are not descended from Europe but rather from Arab nations, including from the parcel of land known today as modern Israel. Known as Mizrachim in Hebrew, they hail from Iraq, Iran, Morocco, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Algeria, as well as from the Asian ccaucasus region of the former Soviet Union. Those Israelis who are Ashkenazi, the Israeli term for Jews of European descent, are increasingly the minority inside Israel. There are, additionally, a small percentage of Jewish people from Ethiopia, and even a nominal number from India. And, while small in number, there are Jews in Israel who are descended from families that lived in the region under Ottoman rule, and centuries before that. Today,45% of the world’s Jewish people live in Israel, with a similar amount in the United States, and smatterings across other countries in Europe (including the former Soviet Union), Canada, Latin America, Australia and South Africa.' So Hamas (and their supporters) believe that half the Jewish population in the world today should be eliminated in order that Palestinians take over the entire land from the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean). |