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Originally posted by kozmo
reply to post by downisreallyup
Hmmm, yes the TWELVE tribes of Israel. Perhaps you have failed to recognize that the Middle East is the cradle of civilization - where ALL human beings originated. How are you so sure that the varying races scattered around the globe do not constitute the 12 tribes? How are you so certain that YOU are in the right tribe??? A bit arrogant and presumptive methinks!
Oh, and thanks for the diversion, obfuscation and dithering. There is nothing more refreshing that being called "racist" when I am not even referring to a race, but a religion!
[edit on 2-3-2010 by kozmo]
Originally posted by bigyin
I've not read the article yet but I do notice a lot of chatter here about being able to convert to being Jewish.
In the past I've had flak for saying that that cant be true. If being Jewish is a race, and not a religion which I considered it to be, then how can anyone convert and change their race ? It's simply not possible.
Can anyone advise me please ?
Originally posted by Odessy
reply to post by Josephus23
lol yeah, the Jews, the smallest country in the middle east are persecuting the rest of the surrounding peoples...
uh.....
I guess as much as anyone else is...
Originally posted by kozmo
reply to post by poedxsoldiervet
Apparently you didn't read the article very carefully. I NEVER claimed that the "Jews" weren't "Jewish", I claimed that they're NOT Semites!!! Judaism is a religion, NOT a race! The article spells that out very clearly. ALthough, I'm sure that the "Jews" appreciate your attempt at diversion and obfuscation.
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
reply to post by McGinty
Studies I have read show the majority of Jews in Israel to have Semitic ancestral markers. Most Palestinians and Israelis are more closely genetically related than any other groups of people on earth.
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
This information is not used to lay claim to the land.
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
The religious aspect isn't universal. Many among the early Zionists were not religious but in fact communist. A form of religious Zionism rose in reaction to this later, but Judaism wasn't the excuse for the claim to the land.
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
Instead its been more of a cultural and historical claim than anything.
Originally posted by kozmo
Well folks, here it is - Proof the Jews are NOT Semites!
So, now that we can conclusively determine that the Sephardic Jews are Spanish and the Ashkenazim Jews are Central/Eastern European, I am wondering exactly when the Jews are going to return Israel to the Palestinians, the TRUE Semites. Also, will these posers now stop with the "Anti-Semite" crap, please!?!?
Just think of the implications of this. A group of people have laid claim to a land that they have absolutely no connection to whatsoever. And the majority of the world was complicit in displacing the rightful settlers of this land, the Palestinians who have lived there for millenia, in order for a people whose ancestors had NEVER set foot upon the land to live there. Kind of makes you wonder...
Originally posted by Renegade Bison
i find the whole idea of someone being jewish just because their mother is jewish is laughable. by that same token i am jewish because my mother is (for the same reason as me) jewish because my grandma (for the same reason as me) is jewish just because HER mother was jewish, when ALL of us have no time for any religion and have no association with judiasm whatsoever. not only do we not practise judiasm, we've actively criticised many of its practises as we do with all the main religions because we, to be blunt, think they are ridiculous.
then if this dna evidence proves that judiasm is not a race then there is even less strength to the claim of there being any jewish heritage passed down. and forgive me for wondering why it can only be a jewish mother who has inherently jewish kids. by that bizarre approach if i have kids with a non-jewish-descended woman then our children will not be jewish even though i supposedly am just because i'm a man. that, in my opinion is as ridiculous and illogical as all of judiasm (and christianity and islam too) in my book, if you'll excuse the pun.
it's as blatantly untrue to call someone like me jewish as it is to call me scottish, because on one side of my family i have a GREAT, GREAT grandma who is scottish. even if my parents were scottish i would be ENGLISH because i was born in ENGLAND, but the fact is my parents and my grandparents are all english anyway and on one side of my family the english heritage goes much further back. anyone with 2 brain cells could conclude that i am english and am not scottish and by the same token i am not jewish just because perhaps the torah (or whoever made up their rules) likes to think so.
now you'll have to excuse me whilst i get back to my bacon sandwich.
Originally posted by poedxsoldiervet
Goof Ball... Where in the Article does it say these Jews are not JEWS????????
Originally posted by KOGDOG
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. (Eze 16:3)
Use the above data as a basis for your DNA arguments...
Originally posted by Mr Poopra
Originally posted by Josephus23
Being a Jew is not a religion, but an ethnic group. I should know...why? Because i'm a Jewish Christian. According to myself, as well as other Jews, i am still a Jew even if i believe in Jesus Christ.
Bah! Utter crap! Just because YOU and your fellow Jews claim it doesn't make it the least bit true. Thank you so very much for illuminating my argument to it's brightest! Almost a dozen articles have been posted throughout this thread that furiously debunk your claim and actually, and factually, explain it - in detail. Yet you continue to deny because of what YOU believe.