gal_from_usa.......GFU... lol writes whole lot of stuff in one post all the way from some 500 years before Christ to 2000 years after Christ ..
Jews in the 1st century CE and earlier....
I don't think that it's fair to think of Jews as an ethnic group,....
The Hellenistic Jewish sect didn't believe in racial purity and had no problem intermarrying,...
the texts of modern Judaism--were written by the Pharisees, ....
Many became Christians and moved the idea of salvation outside of this world. ....
The Pharisee sect wrote the Talmud.....,
The Pharisees, unfortunately, were from Ezra's school of thought on race relations ...
and as such the people who we recognize today as Jews started to separate themselves from other local groups.....
we have now in the Ashkenazi community with inbreeding and genetic diseases--
if you take any two Ashkenazis from anywhere, they are as closely related as fourth or fifth cousins....
The inbreeding problem's going to kill off the "traditional ethnic Jew".....
"....Judaism and Israel could do with being less racist and less "racially pure".....
Jewish ethnic identity does not go back to the time of the oldest Jewish texts, ..............
If I put together those statements it sounds like from some revelation GFU., and I really don't care about the some 1000s of year old past. religious preachers and texts.., What I care about is 21st century planet earth and its human future .,Now the one point that appears to be relevant is highlighted above.. and that is
"....Judaism and Israel could do with being less racist and less "racially pure".
as far as your words on
".Judaism being racist should be less "racially pure". ., it is irrelevant ., .Judaism is nothing but bunch of texts and those who follow those texts.. .. we must note here very few people read those texts and out of them very very few follow those texts .... those numbers are sand grains in sands of human population. An on top of that, no intelligent Jewish rabbi will stop you questioning their religious literature..
so your next point
"Israel could do with being less racist and less "racially pure"."..
Proof is in pudding and pudding is population of Israel and its racial purity verse its diversity.. we must realize Israel as nation came to existence not because of Jewish folks but because of external reasons., one of them being persecution of Jewish folks across the globe., in west as well as in East specially so-called Islamic countries and Christian countries
THE RASCALS WHO PREACH CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM and THE RASCALS WHO RULED so-called Christian nations and Islamic Lands are the reason why Jewish folks needed country .. These scoundrels who preach Islam and Christianity usurped Jewish literature ..Jewish festivals.. Jewish messiahs and they used all that stuff to persecute Jewish folks ..
That is the tragedy of Jewish people ..so-called Jewish race.. let me give diversity of Israel
Group..................Population........................Proportion of total................Growth rate
Jews:......................6,119,000 .......................75.0%...................................1.7%
Non-Haredi..........5,499 000....................... 65.1%.....................................1.2%
Haredi..................750,000....................... ........9.9% .......................................5.0%
Arabs..................1,688,600............................20.7%.....................................2.1%Other..................349,700..................................4.3%................................................N/A
Total ..................8,157,300.......................100%............................................1.9%
But I agree ., ISRAEL GOVT COULD HAVE SPEND MORE MONEY FOR EDUCATION AND DEVELOPING INSTITUTIONS FOR PALESTINE CHILDREN .... again they face complex problems ..
please read more on
"Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries " and those
Ethiopian Jews
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