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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 05:40 PM
Response to Reply #41
44. I was continuing the discussion, not moving goalposts
However this was your point:

"Israel would simply not exist under a one state solution. Not as a culturally Jewish state."

My response is simply... So what? Is there some huge need that there absolutely, at all costs, MUST be a state definable as "culturally Jewish"? It's well and good that there is one, but I see no more reason to try to preserve it for all eternity any more than I see the same need for, say, Saudi Arabia or Bhutan. If the dynamic of the state changes, then it changes. I'll shed no more tears if Israel's dynamic changes than I shed over the change of the United States from a purely Anglo-Protestant nation to the misshapen but lovable mutant nation we now are.

I'm aware of the Arab population of Israel. Are they actually part of Israel, or do they just happen to live within the borders? You can't make claims that said population makes Israel multicultural, when Israel, both officially and unofficially, makes every effort to prevent Arab involvement in anything beyond menial labor.
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