ok, i'm joining this conversation pretty late and didn't read alot of it, but i have some things to say, and don't want to flame anyone or any religon
1. i am an american-born palestinian (as in i was born to palestinian parents in america for those who lack brains, i'm arab, and i'm muslim, and i don't want to kill you)
2. i don't hate jews, and i don't hate zionism, they deserve a right to that land (Israel/Palestine/Canaan, whatever the f*ck you want to go ahead and call it)
3. a Semite is not a jew, the term Semite is defined a descendant of abraham, that covers both jews and arabs, saying arabs are anti-semitic is a pardoxial statement, go learn english, if everyone jumps off a cliff, don't go with them, use the proper terminology in your bashing. also, jew was never considered an ethnicity, you have Israeli Jews (most of which are European), Arab Jews (believe it or not there is a nice chunk of arab jews in israel), Ethiopian Jews and so on. a jew is a follower of judaism, and a muslim is a follower of islam, if you want to give jews an ethnicity go ahead and call them Israeli, again, learn your terminology
Originally posted by: rextilleon
Sultan-just shows how little you know---there are non-Jews living in Israel with full rights of citizenship. The Jews will never allow a Muslim majority to take over the country---they don't want an Ayatollah running the country.
4. not really, my father's family's house is actually inside jerusalem's city borders, and was there before 1967, but when they applied for Israeli Citizenship (a Jerusalem ID) they were denied it because one person on the approval board didn't want to have more arabs inside jerusalem
5. there are MANY wacko fundamentalist jews out there as one, just because the american media only covers the muslim ones doesn't change that. when we were visiting the west bank this summer, a group of israeli settlers and jewish citizens of jerusalem made a HUMAN WALL from a settlement in Gaza all the way to jerusalem, this was supposed to be like a rally, and many of the people that were interviewed were mentioning things about wanting all muslims to be killed, removal of all arabs from israel and its territories, and the destruction of the dome of the rock and masjid al-aqsa and erection of a temple there (which has been a plan on the minds of say 5% of all the jews [the fundamentalist wackos, just like the ones we have] in israel) note: i saw this on american run iraqi news channel, Al-Hurra, literally translated to, The Soveirgn (sp?) or The Independent
6. i don't hate jews, and i don't want death to all jews either. in fact, i know a couple of jews, and have some jewish friends as well, and they don't have a problem with me either. its the israeli gov't i hate, for their strong anti-palestinian policies (i am not allowed to go to jerusalem, not allowed to pray in al-aqsa, not allowed to leave the west bank, we only manage to leave from tel-aviv because our american citizenship allows us to get Tasreeh (i believe its hebrew for permission or something like that) for entry into israel) when israel took the west bank, gaza, and golan, it wasn't like the US's annexation of hawaii or alaska, people inside there are discriminated (with the exception of golan, syria just sat back and let them take it, it is now 99% jewish i believe, and is technically a part of israel) and do not have rights, yet they have their own gov't inside of occupied territories. that makes no sense, and would have to lead to corruption and internal relations between the two gov'ts.
7. that statement someone posted earlier from the quran about not seeing people of the scriptures is taken out of context, and the meaning has been totally annihalated. read the verses around it, this verse was revealed as to tell the muslims not to mix their practices with those of other religons, as in, why do we need to celebrate hannukah for example (not trying to be anti-jewish, but i need a holiday to mention) when we have our own two Eid's (celebrations). if that verse is true, why are muslim men allowed to marry christian and jewish women? why did the ottomans allow the jews and christians to live inside in peace? why does saudi arabia have about 1,000 jews in it? why are there a large amount of christians in "muslim ruled" egypt and syria? why did omar bin al-khattab allow the jews and christians to remain inside jerusalem when he added it to the islamic empire?
8. there are crazy fundamentalists on all sides of every religon, and the only way to get rid of them is to call up Yuri from RA2, or wipe them out, and im not trying to suggest mass murder or anything.
9. and believe me, if some foriegn invader kicked you out of your house (my grandparents are refugees), took half your land, then took some more a couple decades later, some decades after that enforced extremely apartheid-like laws on you (israels anti-palestinian policies are pretty recent, dating back to the early 90s only), then built a nice wall for you to put grafitti on through your country, YOU WOULD BE PISSED.
10. the subject of this topic is so gay, and i believe i've just destroyed its whole purpose and answered it, all of you, stop argueing about it, as im sure you will never come to a decisive answer, as for me, i'm willing to say what i want, shut up, and see what everyone else does about it
EDIT: lol, yuri is from ra2 not for ra2