I understand the sympathy for the Palestinians, but to imply there's only one bad actor in this whole scenario and the Palestinians are the perpetually displaced victims is wrong. All the nations of the ME have expelled the Palestinians. They are a nomadic people without borders or a homeland. Only when the state of Israel was formed did these nomads decide Gaza and the West Bank, a prior wasteland to put it nicely, was their territory and homeland. Palestinians as a people didn't come into political existence until after the founding of Israel in 1948. IMO the Palestinians are akin to the gypsies in Europe. If the other ME nations had absorbed these people into their own populations decades ago instead of routinely expelling them as nomads there wouldn't be this problem today. Also, much of the Old Testament is a valid historical record that can be corroborated by research in both anthropology and archeology. The Jews' ancestral home is the ME. If the Palestinians had ever acted in good faith with the Israelis, we would have a two-state solution already, if not both peoples living under the same state. Simply put, the Palestinian leadership(PLO/Fatah/Hamas..ALL terrorist groups) has always been hostile towards Israel and at this point many Jews no longer care about making peace with them. There has never been a Palestinian state and no one has more claim to the land on which the modern state of Israel exists other than the Jews. Remember the goal of Hamas and previous Palestinian leadership isn't to coexist in a separate state alongside Israel. They want to expel the Jews and/or destroy the Jewish state. IMO the Palestinians should be put under UN control and forced to live under 'international' occupation and learn how to function like a peaceful state not hell bent on destroying Israel. If Jordan and Egypt could get off that whole cut-Israel's-throat kick from the 1960s and '70s, the Palestinians need to find a new direction too.
Wow! even in the face of incredible proof! You still insist on continuing to support their evil ways. At every turn people are finding out just how bad they are! .........Un freaking believable! The dam lies and bad deeds just in the 13 years starting with 911 would already be a long lists! The world needs to completely isolate their ass, a complete and total embargo just like they did to Gaza and Nuremberg everyone in their government! I never believed in violence but, it is more evident today that they need to be stopped! I have been to Israel myself and though I didn't personally see much I was treated like a terrorist in the airport on arrival even though I wearing a business suit with a big ass musical instrument case......REPLACE WHITE SUPREMACY WITH JUSTICE!
Every non-Israeli arriving at Tel Aviv airport is treated like a potential terrorist. It's not just you. If you're going to convict and execute Israeli leadership as war criminals, what are you going to do with Hamas, Fatah and the remnants of the PLO?? Or do you consider them 'freedom fighters'??:smt102
Israel has to stop the "Israel as a home for all Jews" approach to immigration. I support it as a home for Mizrahim or Sephardim who were oppressed under Muslim regimes throughout the region, but not Ashkenazi European Jews, who make up nearly half the population. They're European, regardless of their religion and I don't see why Palestinians should atone for the wrongs done to them during WWII by European "Christians". They should have been given some territory in Europe for this. This sliver of territory that is Israel is also too small for all Palestinians to have the right of return. The population pressures feed the settlement movement and the squalor of Gaza, in particular. Ideally, everyone would be incorporated into a non-religious state that protects all people equally, regardless of ethnicity. But since it appears that they cannot manage this, two viable states should be created.
Google Judaism, unless that originated in Russia too. Neandertal=Jew?? Jeez man, anti-semitic much?? I didn't know proto-humans had a religious/cultural affiliation.:-? I agree with orejon4, the best solution is one secular state that protects the rights of all ethnicities and religious faiths but that's probably a fantasy at this point. Although there are resident Palestinians living as citizens of Israel. I don't look at it as the Palestinians having to atone for the sins of WWII. However the rejection of Jewish immigrants to the West Bank following the end of the war simply because they're Jewish is really the problem IMO. We should have designated Hawaii as the Jewish state after WW2, but I'm sure many Polynesians would have called bullshit on that one. Still I don't believe Pacific Islanders would have made it their singular goal to drive every single Jew living in Hawaii into the Pacific Ocean.
It's sad, but I think you're right about that one. I don't think Palestinians should have to atone either, I just meant that rhetorically, meaning that a lot of the support for Israel internationally was about Europe addressing the injustice done during the Holocaust against Ashkenazi Jews. But taking land from Middle Easterners to address a fundamentally intra-European crime/issue doesn't seem fair. Mizrahim and Sephardim Jews have had periodic hardships throughout the Middle East for over a thousand years, depending on which regime was in power, and there was no support for reconstituting Israel until European Jews began theorizing about it in the late 19th century to escape from hardships and discrimination from European citizens. European nations only supported the creation to get rid of their own Jewish populations. Sort of like Lincoln when he thought about sending Africans back to Africa rather than fighting the Civil War.
EXACTLY!........genetics also support this historical fact by connecting so called askinnazi Jews to other people of that region by common congenital deseases... Oh, it was Alexander poliak I believe that uncovered the history of the khazars and there is also a book called the "thirteen tribe" by author koesler
THE CAUCASOID NEANDERTHALS KNOWN AS THE JEWS WOW. What a horrible, horrible thing to say. All I can say is that my heart is torn. Being a Jew, it's tormenting to read such hateful words, and coming from a group of people who have themselves been faced with prejudice and hatred just because of the color of their skin. I really believed humans have grown and evolved over the decades. Joining a forum like this was an example of positive changes, of people from different backgrounds coming together, but I was fooled into wishful thinking. CAUCASOID NEANDERTHALS KNOWN AS JEWS
That dear Restless Rita is the truth! The lie has persisted long enough. In fact its responsible for many misconceptions and myths. That's why people still think the Ancient Egyptians and Nubians were white. They identify those historical figures with the present Jews who claim to have been there since time immemorial. If you or anyone else wants to learn real history read this: http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2011/01/who-were-kushites.html She's spent 4 decades researching biblical archaeology.
If you are a member of a particular faith tradition, you then have a right IMO to claim the heritage and history associated with that legacy. A Jew anywhere is a Jew regardless, and that history begins in the ME. Claiming European Jews are a bastardized subset of 'real' Judaism is highly problematic. But I do agree with orejon that encouraging a 'right to return' to Israel for all the world's Jews is contributing to the problems on the West Bank. Israel simply is too small even with expanded settlements to have enough land to provide for their growing population. BTW I've never seen or heard anyone claim ancient Nubians and Egyptians were White.
You are full of non facts. They were not neanderthals for crying out loud. There is simply no truth to the claims that some white groups are neanderthals or partially neanderthals. ,Neither is your statement about Nubians and ancient Egyptians correct. Can someone block this fool. Calling any group of people neanderthals is just racial aggression and has no place on a wwbm site
He's been here too long. However, I was debating on whether or not to report some of his posts so Webbie can look them over and decide for himself and I will report his more egregious posts.
Smgdmfh!! Are you Kenyan brought up and raised in KENYA? If you are then you are a disgrace to Africans. Africans have been villified, maligned and insulted by EVERY race on earth and you decide to come onto a site like this and call white people neanderthal? You have the effrontery to disrespect people openly like this and still continue to do this? Are you aware that if any of these people you call neanderthal decided to pull up a paper and decide to list what is wrong with Africa and Africans they would run out of paper compared to what you would be able to list on your paper? We have some of the most decent white people here some of them Jews who do not tolerate such racially disrespectful statements made about black people and the least you could do is to be civil towards them. You can make your point without insulting them. Why don't you use your supposed knowledge to educate people in your home country never to be barbaric towards each other because of electoral disputes EVER again
I think the OP meant this. "If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. Discovery News has been reporting on human/Neanderthal interbreeding for some time now, so this latest research confirms earlier findings." http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics-neanderthal-110718.htm I'm not sure how this could be construed as an insult.
In the context in which it was used, it was obviously meant to be insulting. You're trying to be too clever by half. Human beings share 99% of the same DNA as chimps. Does that make it okay to call a specific ethnic group a race of apes?? It always blows me away how people are so quick to take new scientific discoveries and force fit them into their own twisted racial/ethnic and political belief system. When you say in casual conversation that any group of people are Neanderthals or part-neanderthal, the unspoken message is that group of people are subhuman and inferior. Nairobi wasn't trying to have a 'scientific' discussion. He was dissing and throwing HUGE shade.
Exactly. There was nothing scientific about how he used the term. And Neandertal is not a warm and fuzzy term for a species of human. It's been used derogatorily (is that a word? LOL) for a very long time. No matter what the research says about how advanced they were, people still use it as a "bad word".