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AddReply(452540,"racism","J","Phoenix","06/18/09","I am sorry, but Zionism sounds like racism to me.  All people born in the State of Israel should be citizens of the State of Israel.  All should have equal rights under the law.");
AddReply(358882,"Mike in Vienna","Ben-Yehudah","K\'far Tapu\'ah","11/07/08","B\"H\n\nWhen are you making aliyah?\n\nhttp://esseragaroth.blogspot.com");
AddReply(357335,"Hey Jumpin\' Jane (52), what about me?","sk","USA","11/04/08","I\'m really offended.");
AddReply(357037,"I vote for Velvel and Mike to be BOOTED","Jane","Israel","11/03/08","As a longtime reader of INN, I have to voice an opinion - not on the news, but on the commentators - I think Mike and Velvel should be booted.  As if we don\'t all have enough to concern ourselves with, we all have to swallow their venom and low-class peanut gallery commentary. Of course, I\'m sure they\'ll reply that I can\'t \"face the truth\" or \"accept their rights\" or some other thing that ultra-cynical and self-absorbed ranters say in order to deflect criticism from how truly annoying and peripheral they are.\nPLEASE, INN, stop approving their worthless comments!");
AddReply(355543,"Isaiah 54:17","2BlueStarMom","South Carolina","10/29/08","\"No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their vindication is from Me,\" declares the LORD.");
AddReply(355364,"#45 - to the guy visiting Israel","Michelle","Vancouver","10/29/08","I\'m not saying I will never visit; just that it does not look feasible right now.  \n\nAlthough it may sound trite, I\'m there in spirit.  I wake up and immediately check the news on INN.  I think about Israel every day and share, in a small way, the tribulations and joys of Jews living on their land.\n\nI know that\'s not the same, but it will have to do for now.\n\nAs far as the heritage sites is concerned, the experience of being there must be profoundly moving and beyond words.  \n\nAll the very best to you in your travels.\n\nMichelle");
AddReply(355348,"Israel, Jerusalem","2BlueStarMom","South Carolina","10/29/08","It would break my heart to think that the government is corrupt. I apologize. I am new here to this site. I am an American. I really need to stay up on current events. \n\nI Love Jerusalem, because The Lord Love\'s Jerusalem. Even though I do not know you, I pray for you every morning.\n\nI think I need to pray for more.  I will start watching what is happening over there. Most of what I know, I see on TBN network. \n\nThe heartbeat of the matter is not known evidently. \n\nI know here in America, that many of the younger generation of Jewish folks, seem to have fallen away. That makes me sad. I have 3 sons, it would break my heart if they left me.\n\nI can only imagine how The Father feels.\n\nI hope I have not upset anyone here or insulted anyone. I don\'t mean to. I just want you to know, I am praying for the peace of Jerusalem. ");
AddReply(355316,"Israel, Jerusalem, Jew","2BlueStarMom","South Carolina","10/29/08","Please, I am an American. I am not Jewish that I know of, however, I pray for the peace of Jerusalem, daily, without fail. Please, do not forget who you are, and where you came from. \n\nI know The Lord Loves You, therefore so do I.\n\nI know I speak on behalf of Millions of Americans.\n\nI am \"not\" an Obama supporter. I will never support \"that one\"\n\nI will and many of us will, never stop praying for you or loving you.\n\n\"SHA-ALU SHALOM YIRUSHALAYIM\"\n\nSo please, come together, remember G-d\'s love for you and where he has brought you.\n\nI will never forget.\n\n\"PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM\" and AMERICA!\n\nhttp://prayforthepeaceojerusalem.blogspot.com/");
AddReply(355189,"Yashar Koach, Yishai - right on track.","David Ha\'ivri","Kfar Tapuach","10/28/08","Good article. You are 100% right. We must stay on track and not let the other side brand us with their deception and lies. Zionism=Judaism. I am proud to be one and live on the land. \n\nI wrote this a while back after Amona, take a look http://www.hameir.org/dst/articles%20pages/haivri-I%20am%20a%20Zionist.htm ");
AddReply(354969,"\"strong new hebrew who does not cower\" how dare you!!!","reality","","10/28/08","yishai you are a victim of the same stereotypes and it is insulting to our ancestors that you use such language.");
AddReply(354725,"Michelle, you should still visit and check out your homeland","a guy","visiting Israel","10/27/08","The state is wicked and corrupt and despicable but nonetheless you should visit here and walk the land of our patriarchs and matriarchs and experience the spirituality and see it in person.  It is one of a kind.   And it won\'t make you deluded.  I\'m here and I still know the Israeli govt is evil and out to destroy Judaism and the Jewish people! ");
AddReply(354605,"Y, if a term is being misused why should we buy into it?","Jewish Israeli","Jewish Israel","10/27/08","I agree with you that the politicians and most citizens grossly misuse the term \"Israeli\". Does that mean that we shouldn\'t use it properly? The term Judaism is often misused but we don\'t stop using it.");
AddReply(354524,"#33 - Y from Nitzan","Michelle","Vancouver","10/27/08","Yes, I\'m aware of the many good things in Israel.  There has been a lot of effort, sacrifice and inspired creativity in the building of the country.  You\'re right in feeling proud of those things.\n\nHowever, there is also so much evil concentrated on a relatively small but influential and powerful elite, that I fear for the future of the country in the short term.\n\nWe should pay attention to this fear and alarm because Israel has crossed a line already and it\'s in serious danger.  There are too many threats happening all at once and something needs to be done immediately.\n\nI hope to be able to visit one day, but not now. Not as long as there is this wave of evil sweeping over the country and allowing all kinds of vicious acts against the Jews and against the integrity of the land.\n\nI hope you\'ll find leaders more worthy of you in order to save the country for all of us.");
AddReply(354504,"good one","aaron","haifa","10/27/08","i hope you wrote it in hebrew.  great message.");
AddReply(354499,"Sorry, that last one was for \"Yitzi\" not Y.   Y, I agreed with your comment.","Velvel","silver spring","10/27/08","");
AddReply(354498,"Re: those who say don\'t judge by news headlines:  I AM HERE","a guy","visiting Israel","10/27/08","I am here, and I see the arabs.  I ride the bus, and I see the Arabs get on.   Or worse the Arab employees in all sorts of businesses.  I go on the hikes where a certain \"wrong\" path in our own land will take you to an Arab \"no-go zone.\"  My friends have walked in the wrong neighborhood and been pelted by rocks.  I see the ticking time bomb for what it really is.   You live here, so you are numbed to it and you have learned to live with it and accept it and close your eyes and say everything is fine.   But that is mind warp.  At any moment it can be the next tractor incident, G-d forbid, G-d have mercy on us.\n& to say how great the state is, is incorrect. The land is great, the state is sick, deathly sick and NEEDS CHANGING.    The ticking time bomb enemy people within us must get out. You may live in denial but don\'t tell others that they also have to.   My eyes are wide open.");
AddReply(354494,"Y stop being ridiculous, you sound completely ignorant.","Velvel","silver spring","10/27/08","Now your argument is that Bnei Yisrael is more similar of a name to \"Israeli\" than it is to Jew merely because Bnei Yisrael (or Am Yisrael - which was what I actually used in my post!!!   Try working on your reading comprehension) - because the words bnei Yisrael and \"Israeli\" SOUND ALIKE?    \n\nISRAELI is an identity, and it is one NOT based on Torah.  To say that it is a fitting description of the Jewish people (no matter how closely resembling the SOUND of a word from the bible) is completely ludicrous.   A name is the essence of something.  Ie, its IDENTITY.   The \"Israeli\" identity was invented and is against Torah and against G-d.  There is no way around that contradiction.   And it is exactly that contradiction that causes the current \"Israeli\" leaders to give away land to Arab muslim nazis & strive to appease an enemy population at every step of the way. Anyone can be Israeli");
AddReply(354468,"You are wrong, Michelle.  It is Medinat Israel...","Mike","Vienna, VA","10/27/08","...who needs the protection of Medinat Yehudah, not vice versa.  As for your notes regarding Christian Arabs, first of all note that the only way Christians living under Islamic rule can \"prove\" their loyalty to their Moslem masters is by attacking the Jews even more vehemently than the Moslems.  Secondly, note that the difference between Islam and Christianity is merely political.  The Moslems are obligated to physically exterminate the Jew, whereas the Christians are obligated to forcibly convert him.  A Jewish State would allow only ONE organized religion.  The only goyim present in a Jewish State would be Bnei Noach, who worship the same G-d as we do.  Christians are not Bnei Amalek, but this does not make them our friends.");
AddReply(354418,"Great article Yishai! A lot to be learned from this.","Laura Ben-David","Neve Daniel","10/26/08","");
AddReply(354407,"No, Mr. Ronen (28), it was NOT an excellent article.  UNITY=DEATH","sk","USA","10/26/08","And you have not suggested why it is, except to trot out the old \"we have to be united\" nonsense.  Being united is terrific when the people involved all value one another over those who wish to do them harm.  But the \"Israelis\" do not value the \"Jews\"; their leadership want to destroy the Jews.  This is not melodrama, but cold, hard fact.\n\nYou are a journalist.  I am sorry that such fact eludes you.");
AddReply(354368,"Israeli vs Jew","RichardRose","SoCAL","10/26/08","In truth the one thing the author forgot to mention is that this divide is between the Jews and the erev rav. Peres and his elk are clearly erev rav who want to be like the nations, and forsake the Jewishness of the nation Israel. I say GD bless Israel!");
AddReply(354322,"General","Ben-Yehudah","K\'far Tapu\'ah","10/26/08","B\"H\n\nAlthough you make a couple of good points,....\n\n1. There are three types of religious settlers, not one, the mamlachti State loyalist, the Gush Etzion \"I\'m not a settler, I live in a J-M suburb, and think my part of Israel is called The Gush,\" and the minority \"Torah first, Israel law second.\"\n\n2. Peres\'s statement was a classic indication of the division between Erev Rav, which has no connection to the Land, and the Jews who actually inherented it.\n\n3. Any time there is a mahloqeth between datti leumi and haredi, the so called post Zionists are jumping for joy.  Let\'s not give them the last laugh. So, how about if the mamlachtim lay off the haredi bashing.  They\'re part of Israel\'s future, not the Rabbanim Tze\'irim who refuse to acknowledge the stiroth between the Torah and State.\n\nReaching out to secular Jews is one thing, but to their Erev Rav leadership, no way.");
AddReply(354250,"It\'s a wonderful state - come see!","Y","Nitzan","10/26/08","Michelle:\nDon\'t make the mistake of judging Israel by internet news headlines.  Yes the events you mention happened and many more anti Jewish acts occur here but there are many, many great things about the State of Israel and its Jewish citizens:  To name but a few:  multitude of chesed organizations here, universal health care, state supported Torah/religous education, Torah references about the Land of Israel at my son\'s IDF induction ceremony where he received a gun and T\'nach  (davening/kashrut/Shabbat/Chagim all observed in my son\'s combat unit in the IDF; his commander even reminds him to join the minyan), all supermarkets, govt. and company cafeterias as well as all major hotels observe kashrut.  Perhaps from Vancouver the news reports only the negetive.  Come home and see for yourself!");
AddReply(354239,"The events of the day speak for themselves","Michelle","Vancouver","10/26/08","Yishai, we hold you in high esteem.  Your tireless efforts to build up the country according to Torah, and to bring more Jews into Israel deserve all our respect.  \n\nBut it\'s hard to support Israel when Jews are being mistreated by the state.  \n\nIf Israel is truly a country by and for the Jews, let\'s see if there\'s a proper reaction from Israeli citizens at the outrage perpetrated against a Kiryat Arba family by the state police.\n\nIf there\'s silence, Yishai, then the message for the Jews is clear.");
AddReply(354219,"to Jewish Israeli # 19","Y","Nitzan","10/26/08","In stating that only 75% of Israelis are Jews, I\'m referring to citizenship in the modern state of Israel, not theoretical citizenship in a Torah state.  It is unfortunate and ridiculous that the founders of Medinat Yisrael used the term Israeli (a Hebrew term/ synonym of Yaakov) to define all the citizens thereof.  Actually, it\'s not the use of the term Israeli that\'s problematic, it\'s allowing non Jews as citizens of the Jewish state.  So we have over a million Jew/Israel hating arab citizens whom the state defines as b\'nei Yaakov. ");
AddReply(354207,"Israelite is not Israeli","jjstar","Negev","10/26/08","There is light within the Bnei Israel - there is a common thread, a direction, Shechinah dwelling among us. There is a distinct difference in the Israeli - who lacks the Light.Who has gone astray. Who has disconnected, and who has cut themselves off at the roots. A new nation must now emerge. A new state. There is no going back and no nostalgia for what once was or what appeared to be. Judea/Samaria must branch out - independently. The rest will follow.");
AddReply(354204,"COULDN\'T HAVE BEEN PUT BETTER","Liam","Rome","10/26/08","Yishai, good for you.  Thank you for your lucid and exacting analysis.  I never considered the nuances between \"Jew\" and \"Israeli\" and feel that you are quite right, and that this awareness should be shared with fellow tribesmen.\n\nI am surprised by the irate, knee-jerk, and rather obtuse responses of some of the talkback writers - maybe you haven\'t fully understood or completed the article?  In any event, it should be noted that many of those who spout more enraged comments are also those who would be categorized by Yishai as \"Jews\" - perhaps they are feeling defensive.\n\nIn any event, Yishai, I hope you will publish this article in Hebrew and get your landsmen thinking about the nature of their collective and personal identities.");
AddReply(354174,"Excellent article Mr. Fleisher!","Gil Ronen","","10/26/08","Kikes, Jews, Yids and Israelis must unite and fight! One nation, under G-d, indivisible, with liberty and Temple for all!");
AddReply(354157,"#26 Mike","Michelle","Vancouver","10/26/08","Not just Muslims but all Arabs in general.  Christian Arabs have been known to join up with their Muslim brothers in attacking Jews. \n\nWhen it\'s a matter of confronting Jews, their ethnic tribalism supersedes religion.  So Christian or Muslim (which in my opinion includes Druze and Bedouin as well), are all an Arab demographic threat.\n\nOf course Islam is the most threatening religious group right now, with the Iranians acting up in Syria and Gaza.  \n\nBut the Arab threat has to be dealt with by Israel too (assuming there\'s a separate Medinat Yehudah by that time).  If the Arabs take over Israel demographically, they will have access to the Israeli nuclear arsenal.  \n\nMike, Medinat Yehudah would not be able to survive without the protection of Israel\'s nukes.  That\'s why a strong, Arab-free secular Israel is also essential.\n\nAnd you addressed #15 as Meira.  It was Michelle, BTW.");
AddReply(354129,"To #15: \"Moslems\", Meira, not \"Arabs\"","Mike","Vienna, VA","10/26/08","This is NOT an ethnic conflict.  Do you REALLY believe that Moslems, who are clearly Bnei Amalek, would be permitted to exist in a Jewish State?  Medinat Yehudah would have zero Moslem population.  As for other goyim, Halacha prohibits them from having political rights, receiving state benefits, owning immovable property, working in government jobs, holding power over Jews or being hired when qualified Jewish applicants are available.  Trust me, Medinat Yehudah will not have a problem with goyim.  This is why Medinat Yehudah is the ONLY answer.");
AddReply(354119,"Major points lost to secondary semantics","Alan Perlman","Har Hevron","10/26/08","Fleisher\'s key point is that the children of yesterday\'s secular \"New Jew\" are now ghetto-Jews, surrendering cowards with no love of the land; and today\'s fearless Jews are those attached to Torah. Without Torah, the \"New Jew\" was not sustainable. As for Israeli vs Jew semantics, he is correct, and Post-Zionist\'s like Peres use Israeli to replace the formerly in vogue \"Canaanite\" label. But it, like all labels,is only a minor issue: Non-halachic Jews in America label non-halachic movements \"Judaism\" which they are not; Catholic replacement theology sees Catholics as the new chosen people; the world calls Israel the new Nazis. So what? Let them. The important point is that no matter whether we Torah Jews call ourselves Jews, Israelites/Children of Israel or Hebrews, G-d\'s redemption moves forward. And soon, the whole world will see it, regardless of labels.      ");
AddReply(354117,"To #23: Are you stupid or drunk?","Mike","Vienna, VA","10/26/08","A Jew is a Jew.  A Jew has no other identity.  If you think you are \"Australian\" kindly go sleep it off!  When the local yobs come to beat you for being a dirty kike, they will certainly NOT consider you Australian!");
AddReply(354094,"Identity Constructs.","Adam Neira","Melb, Australia","10/26/08","How one defines oneself is of paramount importance to how one orientates one\'s self to G-d, others and the wider world.\n\nThis is the correct order...\n\nFirst - I am a human-being.\n\nSecond - I am an Australian etc.\n\nThird - I am Jewish.\n\nRestrictive, tribal-based identities that act as a point of disconnection and understanding to others is a problem. The G-dly energy at the very centre of creation is one of stability, order, benevolence and expansiveness. Obviously there are boundaries to this \"essence\".\n\nChildren see the inherent beauty, innocence and purity within each other quite naturally. Children are curious about the other person. They ask themselves private questions like...Who is this person ? Where do they live ? What is their name ? What are they afraid of ? What makes them happy ? Do they like me ?\n\nAdults forget these things. \n\nThus human history is as it is..");
AddReply(354044,"Yishai is right in his terminology...","Another Kohen","","10/26/08","Hashem alone changed Yaacov\'s name to Yisrael. \n\n\"Yisrael\" embodies the prophetic meaning that:  \'someday Yisrael will obtain the status of \"Prince of El\"\' - not because it was simply handed to him, but, because he (Israel)would persever with El - until the Messianic era. \n\nAfter which Yaacov\'s descendants would become \"ROSH\" of the new world, and \"rule the nations with a rod of iron\" - hence obtaining the title \"Yisrael\" - \"Prince of El\" - would find fulfillment.\n\nThe term Yehudah did not come into play until the tribe of Judah (Y\'huda) recieved their allotment... after Moshe\'s passing. \n\n\"Y\'huda\" originally designated those who were genetically associated with the tribe of Judah, or were adopted into that clan. \n\nIn time, by pagan designation, it denoted those in Judea, and evolved into the word \"Jew\". \n\nBy Divine order the terms \"Yisrael\" and \"Yisraeli\" are here to stay.");
AddReply(354030,"Silly childish semantic games","Aristotle","","10/26/08","Bottom line: there are \"Israelis\" who are jew-hating secularists and there are Jews. \n\nHow are you gonna define them?");
AddReply(354027,"Dear Yishai","Rob","usa","10/26/08","You know I love you brother, but I think you are wrong about this. \n\nI do not think the elite give a hoot about Hashems Torah, or the people who choose to follow Hashem. This is pretty clear. \n ");
AddReply(353959,"Y, only Jews can be Israelis","Jewish Israeli","Jewish Israel","10/25/08","A non-Jew is a resident alien, \"ger toshav\", and according to Jewish law is not eligible for Israeli citizenship. Only the People of Israel can be Israelis. ");
AddReply(353930,"you need help","reality","","10/25/08","i resent that you say \'I was the Jew\"implying that \"the Jew\"is some kind of bad, weak, oppressed thing. Jew simply is english for Yehudi, which is grateful.\n\nyou know what? you need help. i am weary of your arrogance. i see it all the time. you think that jews who live in israel are better than other jews. \n\ndon\'t you realize how damaging this is. you can see it from your language in this piece.\n\nif you really have ahavas yisroel then you respect jewish people everywhere. there are plenty of righteous jews outside of israel that are far far far more righteous than you.\n\nthink about that and get off your stupid, damaging high horse.");
AddReply(353879,"There is a fine line between proud & arrogant!","","","10/24/08","");
AddReply(353870,"SAINT  SHIMON","ALEX SANDOR","VICTORIA,CANADA","10/24/08","Peres is to be made a knight of Saint Michael and Saint George according to a recent report in the Jerusalem Post. Peres is not only a Jew but in fact is the perfect COURT JEW. His English handlers are rewarding this Oslo criminal for importing Arafat and the resulting wave of terror that has cost many innocent Israeli lives.");
AddReply(353829,"And one more thing","Michelle","Vancouver","10/24/08","Regarding the Judea-Israel federation (with Judea requiring the biggest area due to population growth rate) there is still a big problem that needs to be addressed as soon as possible: the Arab population within the country. \n\nThere is no future for Jews or Israelis as long as the Arab population keeps growing in numbers and in animosity. \n\nThe very fact of having an increasing percentage of Arabs participating in government, courts, police force, etc., defeats the whole idea of Israel as a sanctuary for persecuted Jews, one of the main reasons for the reestablishment of Israel.\n\nFebruary 2008 report: The numbers from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics for 2003 show 15.6% of Arabs are aged 0-4, and 9.1% of Jews are in the same age group.\n\nhttp://samsonblinded.org/blog/israel-fifth-column.htm\n\nAn effective program is needed now if Jews are to survive in their country.\n");
AddReply(353815,"Velvel, what are you talking about?","Yitzi","USA","10/24/08","The term \"Yehudi\" (Jew) did not exist from the time of Moshe except as describing those from Shevet Yehuda.  It was only later, when the 10 tribes split off and the remainder were referred to as Yehuda, that the term Yehudi could include people not from Shevet Yehuda.  From Moshe through Sholomo, and presumably also once the 10 tribes rejoin us, the proper term is \"Bnei Yisrael\", closer to \"Israeli\" than to \"Jew.\"");
AddReply(353806,"Living as a Jew in Israel - two recent news items","Michelle","Vancouver","10/24/08","\"A 10-year-old new immigrant from France was forced to leave the soccer team for which he was registered since according to him, the other children refused to play with him because he wears a yarmulke.\n \n\"After the second soccer practice, the boy came home crying and agitated. “He said that he refuses to go back there as the children would not play with him because he is religious.\" \n\nhttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3610603,00.html\n\n\"A mob of dozens of Arabs threatened and nearly surrounded a group of Jewish worshipers who visited the Temple Mount over the Simchat Torah holiday on Tuesday. The police told the Jews to leave.\"\n\nhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128032\n");
AddReply(353800,"Dear Yishai, it\'s sad that it came to this","Michelle","Vancouver","10/24/08","I was the kind of person who would always defend Israel.  My heart was with Israel, right or wrong. But the more I learn about the way the old dream of a Jewish homeland has been distorted and betrayed by the secular left, the less inclined I am to feel that way.  \n\nI\'m sorry but the Israel you defend is not a country for Jews anymore. Unless - a part of the country is set aside as an autonomous region for Jews to live as Jews, according to their values, and safe from attacks by Nazis, by Cossaks (and you have them too), and subject to pogroms and other indignities sanctioned by the Israeli Courts.\n\nYishai, I\'m not observant but I\'m very pro-religious. I feel proud of my heritage and in pain at seeing it trampled by the Israeli state. \n\nI don\'t care about semantics that much.  I just want Jews to feel safe and be respected as Jews in their own state.");
AddReply(353799,"Silly, confused boy!  Do you WANT to lose?","Mike","Vienna, VA","10/24/08","All identities are artificial.  All identities are created by those who carry them.  The Israelis have created an identity.  Their identity is 180 degrees opposed to Judaism.  They have self-defined as non-Jews.  Armed with this self-defintion, they have been able to destroy your schuls and throw you out of your homes.  After all, these are Jews they are attacking, not Israelis.  Foreigners, not people like them.  And dangerous foreigners, foreigners who are trying to take over the Israelis\' country! \n\nYou, on the other hand, insist on clinging to the very people who seek to rid themselves of you.  Because you define the Israelis as part of yourself, all you can do is cry and wave orange ribbons.  And so you LOSE. Read the writing on the wall.  A Jew cannot be Israeli, nor vice versa.");
AddReply(353758,"Oh good grief, how confused can you be, Yishai?","sk","USA","10/24/08","Peres\'s distinction was not the propaganda/brainwashing. He never intended it to be so well known. Rather, it reflects perfectly the view that the Israeli elite hold, and if you don\'t understand this, of course you can\'t understand anything else about how Israel functions.\n\nBTW, Peres & the other Israelis do NOT think YOU built Israel; they think people like them built it (and they\'re not necessarily wrong about this).\n\nYou\'re the brainwashed one, Yishai--you and everyone else who wears a frisbee-sized kippah but joins the IDF, rather than create Jewish defense forces in Yesha.");
AddReply(353738,"Copy - paste - send to your email lists","Ari","Jerusalem","10/24/08","This is a truth that the world needs to hear.  Thank you Yishai.");
AddReply(353732,"Jewish with Israeli citizenship #5 you are confusing yourself","Velvel","silver spring","10/24/08","You are confusing the LAND OF ISRAEL with the modern day 20th century invented STATE of ISRAEL which happens to encompass some of our land.   The STATE of Israel invented an \"Israeli\" identity to fit with its newfangled \"country\" that was invented in 1948.  Jewish identity, AM YISRAEL, goes back a lot farther than that and really in many ways, has nothing to do with the modern concept of \"Israeli\" except that the Israelis are occupying some of our land and have established a quasi-Jewish sovereignty there.   The quasi part is killing us tho.   And they are quick to relinquish that sovereignty.\n\nRav Kook once pointed out that despite how evil Omri was as a king of Israel, he was praised for having added on a city to Eretz Yisrael.  If that was Omri\'s lone \"saving grace,\" how do you think the evil leaders of today should be viewed considering they destroy communities & hand over land?");
AddReply(353717,"great article! on the mark!","bb","jerusalem","10/24/08","thank you yishai.");
AddReply(353684,"Yishai is correct","Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/24/08","The English word \"Israelite\" used to define Jews for thousands of years is really just an old translation of the Hebrew word \"Yisraeli\" - which today translates into English as Israeli. We are Israelis. In truth, some of us are more \"Israeli\" than Jewish. I am a Kohen and therefore it would be inaccurate to call me a Jew (as I do not descend from Judah). But Israeli is a national identity that we can all share, regardless of what tribe we descend from, because it encompasses all of us.");
AddReply(353672,"Velvel, isn\'t the country called Eretz Yisrael?","Jewish Israeli","Jewish Israel","10/24/08","How can a Jew live in the Land of Israel and not be Israeli?");
AddReply(353664,"clear distinction between Jew and Israeli","Y","Nitzan","10/24/08","As long as 25 per cent of Israeli are goyim (20% arab, 5% mostly Christians from former USSR), the division between Jew and Israeli is not \"artificial\" nor anti Jewish as the author claims but rather a real distinction.  Halavii that all Israelis are Jews; until that happens I\'ll continue to define myself as a Jew with Israeli citizenship.  Ghetto mentality is alive in both the \"Jewish\" camp (chareidi) and \"Israeli\" camp (leftists).  Both groups favor giving away Eretz Yisrael to curry favor with goyim.");
AddReply(353648,"Israel","Hilltop Savta","Israel","10/24/08","\"The irony of it all is that in today\'s Israel, the \'Jew\' is the new \'Israeli\'. Israel was supposed to be the breeding ground for a strong new Hebrew who does not cower. Yet in today\'s Israel, it is the secular-post-Zionist-left which is the cowering Jew being led to the slaughter...\"\n\nOh! That\'s so true, but I never noticed it before.  \n\nGood point, Yishai.  Good one!\n\n\"Hazak, hazak, v\'nit-chazek.\"  (Be strong, be strong, and we will be strengthened.)");
AddReply(353610,"PERES  AND  LAPID","GEORGE","TORONTO","10/24/08","IT  IS  A  VERY  GOOD AND A TRUE ZIONIST  ARTICLE ! PERES  AND  LAPID  ARE NOT  ISREALIS  BUT TRAITORS. UNFOTUNETLY WE  HAD TRAITORS IN  ANCIENT ISREAL  ALSO !! THEY ALL  PERISHED AND  GONE !");
AddReply(353602,"\"Israeli\" is a newfangled INVENTED identity!  Why do you cling to it?","Velvel","silver spring","10/24/08","peres was right.   THe elites who run the country are \"Israeli\" in the full sense of the term.   Israeli has nothing to do with Jewish identity.  The sooner you realize this, the better.   Israeli identity insists that Arabs can be Israeli too - that Jewish identity and Torah are obsolete and unnecessary.   Proven wrong every day.   But still they cling to it.  The amazing thing is when Jews like you somehow buy into the false Israeli identity.   Sounds like an identity crisis going on.   \"Israeli\" never existed before 1948.   Jews existed since Moshe.   It is not that you have a hard-earned right to \"be Israeli.\"  You have a hard-earned right to be a Jew and to rid YOUR JEWISH HOMELAND of these criminals who run your country in the name of \"israeli\" identity.  This article was full of confusion.  You seem to be lashing out.   The first step is to admit, I AM A JEW.");

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