I hope that SkyFloating realises that we are not just slamming Israel into the pavement for the sport of it.

I for one honestly see Israel as the greatest threat to world peace and I think Israel is using the US as a source of funds to advance the cause of Zionism which from my reading of history means more and more land for Israelis.

We are just a few dozen members on ATS who share the same fears of Zionism and feel strongly enough to spend a few hours a week fighting against what we see as tyranny.

SkyFloating and other members should not take what we say personally. It is not about them it is about what is right and when Israeli Jews kill innocent Palestinian children, use innocent Palestinians as human sheilds I just can not remain silent about that kind of crime and example of racism.

I don't want to see young Israeli children hurt and I don't want to see young Palestinian children hurt but the vast majority of children killed are Lebabese and Palestinian and they are often killed with weapons made in my country or paid for by my country so I have a right to denounce Israel's policies.

I posted on this thread because I was so happy to see a Jewish American who is brave enough to state that he / she is willing to stand against the horrible policies Israel is enforcing.

Thank you.

Do you realize that you contradicted yourself? First you said 'nowhere does it say that children whose mothers aren't Jewish but whose fathers are Jewish aren't Jews", then followed that up with "But Jewish lineage is passed on by the mother"...

There is a very practical reason why the mother passes on the Jewish lineage and not the father, but don't confuse that practical explanation for the root archetypal concept which underlies it.

Generally, in ancient times, a man knew who his mother was, but not his father, as a man often took multiple wives. Therefore, Jewish nationality was considered more likely to be determined by the woman and not the man. However, the underlying concept behind this practice is NOT practicality. Practicality merely substantiates the practice for those people who wouldn't understand the metaphysical reason.

The soul is considered feminine because it derives from the creator, who is masculine. All effects, all secondary aspects in a process, are regarded as feminine.Therefore, the soul is feminine, and it is the woman who imparts the 'soul' of the Jewish people to the child she bears.

Conversely, the man determines tribe. If the father is of the tribe of Judah, his child is a Yehudi. If he is a Levite, the child too will be a Levite. This is because a tribe is more a SOCIAL function than a spiritual inheritance.

So, to be exact, you are not a Jew because your father is a Jew. Sure, you can go ahead and reject this millenia long tradition because it doesn't jibe with your secular ideas of ethnicity and culture. At a purely secular level, you could say you're "half Jewish", I suppose, but as a matter of religious and spiritual fact, you're not Jewish. If you want to be so, you would need to convert.

Corruption exposed is correct, it only makes you human.