Can you look at this map and say Israel does not systemically appropriate land?

I'm happy and glad that I'm not divided by walls and fences from my neighbours anymore, since 23 years now ...

The Berlin Wall was to prevent people from reaching freedom.

But the GDR said that they built those walls and fences to prevent "a capitalistic invasion" ...

not much different than Israel building a fence to enforce blockade but claiming it is to keep the killers fenced in.

A Palestinian was killed when Israeli troops opened fire on two Palestinians at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, Palestinian sources say.

Israel said its soldiers had shot two men who had tried to damage a metal barrier, posing an "imminent danger".

Well, that's similar to what the GDR-officials said about their walls and fences ...

The first major survey of American Jews in more than 10 years finds a significant rise in those who are not religious, marry outside the faith and are not raising their children Jewish — resulting in rapid assimilation that is sweeping through every branch of Judaism except the Orthodox.
[...]
Jews make up 2.2 percent of the American population, a percentage that has held steady for the past two decades. The survey estimates there are 5.3 million Jewish adults as well as 1.3 million children being raised at least partly Jewish.

The survey uses a wide definition of who is a Jew, a much-debated topic. The researchers included the 22 percent of Jews who describe themselves as having “no religion,” but who identify as Jewish because they have a Jewish parent or were raised Jewish, and feel Jewish by culture or ethnicity.

However, the percentage of “Jews of no religion” has grown with each successive generation, peaking with the millennials (those born after 1980), of whom 32 percent say they have no religion.
[...]
Reform Judaism remains the largest American Jewish movement, at 35 percent. Conservative Jews are 18 percent, Orthodox 10 percent, and groups such as Reconstructionist and Jewish Renewal make up 6 percent combined. Thirty percent of Jews do not identify with any denomination.

In a surprising finding, 34 percent said you could still be Jewish if you believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
[...]
The survey also portends “growing polarization” between religious and nonreligious Jews, said Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, senior director of research and analysis at the Jewish Federations of North America.

But Foofie, I already have been offensive to Evangelical Christians for the same reasons I am offensive to Jews on this site. They both lie like rugs. None of them recognize the truth. Only what their Books tell them is truth.

oralloy wrote:

The Berlin Wall was to prevent people from reaching freedom.

Yes, that's what we thin, say and know. (Actually, there wasn't just the Berlin Wall but fences and "death stripes" all along the border to the Federal Republic.

But the GDR said that they built those walls and fences to prevent "a capitalistic invasion" ...

60 million Christian Zionists are not a small percentage of the U.S.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog. Sir Jonathan Miller.

I think it could be because they like the pejorative connotation of "Jew" and don't know how to make the word "Hebrew" just as pejorative.

A Jewish spokesman for the Tottenham Supporters' Trust has defended fans' rights to use chants that have been described as anti-semitic at matches.

The Society of Black Lawyers (SBL) has called for Spurs fans who chant "Yid Army" to be prosecuted.

But Daniel Wynne told BBC Sport: "I accept what the word means, but I don't find the chant offensive when used by Tottenham fans.

"In that context it is used positively as a call to arms, a badge of honour."

Tottenham's chanting of the Y-word, a reference to the club's Jewish supporters, is in the spotlight after SBL chairman Peter Herbert said unless the club or the Football Association took a stand on the matter he would report it to the Metropolitan Police.

Walter Hinteler wrote:

oralloy wrote:

The Berlin Wall was to prevent people from reaching freedom.

Yes, that's what we thin, say and know. (Actually, there wasn't just the Berlin Wall but fences and "death stripes" all along the border to the Federal Republic.

But the GDR said that they built those walls and fences to prevent "a capitalistic invasion" ...

I would think the fence kept West Germans from corrupting the mentality of the East Germans. Naturally, most Germans, that were West Germans would like to think that Germans are Germans; however, some of those older East Germans do look back on the Communist days with a longing.

And, the West Germans paid a heavy price to bring East Germans into the capitalistic system, I thought. One could make an argument for West Germany having been exploited?

Interestingly, politicians, be they democratic or facist, seem to get their way by appealing to German's great pride in being Germans, and should be willing to sacrifice to prevent, or vindicate, "humiliation."

People usually don't bite the hand that feeds them.

The point is that some groups are SO PREDICTABLE.