Dear Prashant

Submitted by Debanjan Banerjee (India), Feb 15, 2017 at 21:51

Thanks for your comments.

So here is what you did say.

"And, then, we can wait until this Jewish republic becomes 98% Jewish."

The land between the Jordan river and Gaza is actually 100 per cent Jewish.

You see Prashant the people who call themselves as Arab Palestinians are descendants of the very semitic Jewish tribes from the time immemorial.

The term Jew is a ethnic term.

Therefore even the Arab Christian and Muslims of the region are actually Jews based upon ancient ancestry.

You do not need to believe in Torah to become a Jew. A Jew is not someone who believes in a particular set of religious doctrine. A Jew is someone who belongs to the tribe of Ibrahim. It is ethnic term.

So to congratulate you on your proposal. Israel is already 100 percent Jewish if you go by my logic.

Well there is one problem in what you prescribe.

There are plenty of so-called Jews from Russian and other Askhenaji extraction who do not have any lineage with the region i.e. they do not belong to the original tribes of Ibrahim.

People like Avigdor Lieberman and recent Russian immigrants fall in this category.

So in order to fulfill your proposition these ethnically non-Jews need to flushed out of Israel and she should be filled up with the original people of Ibrahim i.e. the Palestinian refugees.

What is your take on that ?

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