Netanyahu Cuts Israeli Immigration Ad Campaign That Upset U.S. Jews
- Posted on December 4, 2011 at 7:42pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(The Blaze/AP) — Israel’s prime minister suspended a television ad campaign aimed at luring home Israelis living in North America after it sparked an uproar among American Jews, an official said Sunday.
The government-sponsored advertisements, which were broadcast on Israeli TV and in large American markets, tried to warn Israelis that their children could lose their Israeli and Jewish identities if they were raised in the United States and not in Israel. That set off virulent opposition among American Jews, who complained that the commercials were demeaning to their Jewish identity. Al Jazeera English reports on the ads and their reaction in the U.S.:
The campaign touched on the sensitive relations between Israeli and American Jews, and the growing rift between them. Israel depends heavily on the political and financial support of American Jews, but the two sides are often at odds regarding politics and religion.
Israel’s Orthodox-run rabbinate, for instance, doesn’t always recognize marriages and conversions performed by Conservative and Reform rabbis abroad. And American Jews, who are largely politically liberal, are often ill at ease with hawkish Israeli policies and legislation.
In one of the advertisements, Israeli grandparents sit in front of the traditional Hanukkah candelabra while speaking to their granddaughter on Skype. When they ask the child to name the holiday they’re celebrating, she says “Christmas.”
In another, a napping father can‘t hear his son’s calls of “daddy” and only stirs awake when he hears the word “abba” — Hebrew for father. A third, shows an emotional Israeli woman marking Israel’s Memorial Day and her non-Israeli partner unable to relate. The adds are all capped by the slogan: “They will remain Israeli, their children won’t. Help them come home.”
Israel’s embassy in Washington and consulates in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco were inundated with protests from offended American Jews. The Jewish Federations of North America, the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups condemned the ads.
Abraham Foxman, the national director for the Anti-Defamation League, called the ads “unsubtle, crude and heavy- handed.”
“I think it’s offensive. It comes out of an ignorance. Most Israelis don’t understand how American Jewish life works,” he told The Associated Press.
Faced with an uproar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly reversed course and suspended the ads Friday.
“We are very sensitive to the concerns of the Jewish community, and when we understood that they had problems and concerns about the videos, the prime minister said to suspend the campaign,” Natanyahu spokesman Mark Regev told the Jerusalem Post.
“We are always very attentive to concerns raised by the American Jewish community,” Regev said.
It’s not the first time an Israeli government project has upset Jewish Americans.
In 2009, it yanked an ad campaign against Jewish assimilation after it outraged Jews abroad who saw the campaign as an attack on intermarriage — the common phenomenon of Jews marrying non-Jews.
Statistics show that in the U.S. — home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel — about half the marriages of Jews over the past 25 years have been mixed.
Jewish leaders have long warned that the Diaspora’s identity is eroding as more Jews marry out of faith and blend into the non-Jewish mainstream. Meanwhile, Israel has established its own, unique persona, foreign to that of Jews overseas.
Over the years, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have settled in the United States for financial and professional advancement.
Israel’s Ministry of Immigrants Absorption said the goal of its campaign was to target the “soft spots” of Israelis abroad and “their national identity.“ It denied it was trying to interfere with ”the personal choices of Jewish people in the United States or despising their way of living.”
Nachman Shai, an opposition lawmaker, said that trying to bring home Israelis was a fine cause, but not at the price of alienating American Jews.
“The ads indicate that there is an unimaginable gap between an Israeli and an American. Our whole thesis is based on a bridge and a connection. Now this ad comes and says ‘you, the Americans, will never understand us,’” he told Channel 10 TV.
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Comments (77)
NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:05am@Heartitorleaveit
Seriously, please calm down. What do you expect fom some anonymous poster who identities himself as “SIRHANSIRHAN”???? Of what part of evil do you need confirmation? It exists and is everywhere right now. DO NOT ENGAGE IT!
Report Post »KusoJiJi
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:51pmAmerican Jews are red blooded Americans. The only ones that would have a problem with these ads are the ones that already have a bone to pick with Netenyahu. Probably the same ones that vote straight Democrat election after election.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:58amThe first General in Israel… was an American Jew. Hopefully, people will know what is the Right thing to do, at the Right time… not like the Holocaust!
Report Post »Joyce D
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:43amI agree with you. We are much more concerned with the increasing drumbeats for war with Iran than any perceived insult or lack of respect.
Report Post »jsDway
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:45pmI agree with the ads, and would love to have a leader of my country as strong and patriotic as Netanyahu! I think all Jews should be proud of their heritage and want to keep it and follow it teachings and teach it to their children. The Jews are GODS CHOSEN PEOPLE and that makes them a peculiar people. We as Christians know the love that God has for the Jews and the promise that he made to their father Abraham. I wish the American Jews would see the Democrat party for what it is – a people who wants Israel to give into the evil of the terrorists Muslims! The world hates the Israel because it is beloved by the true God!
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:28amIsrael is being blamed for a huge outbreak of rape in Oslo they get blamed for everything article on isralei national news.com
Report Post »Jfifthwheel
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:28pmWell spoken JSDWAY
Report Post »heartitorleaveit
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:29pmQ:whats up with all hose “accidental” explosions in Iran anyway? Are all those guys just retarded or what?
Report Post »Robert999
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:29pmAmerican Jews should be loyal to America, not Israel. Also, it is not a problem if American Jews find salvation and become Christians. That might be a problem for Israelis, but it isn’t for Americans.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:59pmIt is a LAW, if you are a CITIZEN of the United States of America;
Report Post »You will only be a citizen here
You will assimulate
You will not go against OUR constitution
You will not be a traitor
And all of those other anti-American things you do must stop!
There are so many here that do not assimilate I had rather go and be a Patriot to Israel, youve screwed America up and I hate it now
The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:35pmWell, America started its whole “give us your poor, tired, ETC.” & “melting pot” crap when it realized we had far too few people to defend it…we took anybody & everybody, just so we would have “numbers.”
Maybe Israel sees the storm coming soon and wants all hands on deck.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:52pmIt is easy to give Lip Service to a Cause… and avoid the Tasks & Dangers!
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:41pmIf I can get a passport, don’t know a thing about doing that, I, myself from southern Oklahoma, will emmigrate to Israel within the next couple of years….there’s not much left here…for an old timer like me. I‘m not jewish but i am dedicated to Israel’s survival. It’s the Christian thing to do.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:48pmMay GOD bless you!
Report Post »Alborn49
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:39pmThey doth protest too much. Sounds like the ads touched a nerve.
Report Post »kcinco
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:35pmIf American Jews really lived by what is written in the Old Testament, they wouldn’t be such loyal liberals. They would understand that it is God that provides, not the federal government. Netanyahu shouldn’t have caved in.
Report Post »Fitzzz
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:25pmAmazes me how Jews in the USA can stand by, and support Obama
Report Post »I don’t think that is any question, that he wants to bring Israel to it’s knees,
and Jews like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, should be ashamed of themselves
ScarletRose
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:08pm“Abraham Foxman, the national director for the Anti-Defamation League, called the ads “unsubtle, crude and heavy- handed.” ”
I call the ads Exactly Right and Well-Deserved, and VERY Hard-Earned.
Report Post »amjs
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:02pmWell Mr. Foxman would see it that way. Afterall, he thinks Tea Party is extremist, dangerous and violent. I think it’s such a hoot when the supposed anti-defamation club slams others on a regular basis. Here’s a link for an old article of ADL http://www.adl.org/special_reports/rage-grows-in-America/default.asp ( Poor Mr. Foxman doesn’t know who the true friends of Israel are)
Report Post »Tretka
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:05pmHow do I say this? Those Jews who do not follow the first five books of the bible and their meaning get offended and do not understand. Now, I would have probably talked about keeping the faith in a different way, but these are desperate times for Israel. It’s akin probably, to a Christian shouting “Repent now!”, though true, many folks hate the words and the idea.
I am thinking that shoresh ( bridge) between the Jewish in America the Jewish in Israel is sorely needed (I am sure this already well known).
What the Prime Minister should have said is, ” This is our spiritual homeland, keep the faith and traditions as God intended-please support us and visit us Jewish Americans”.
I know, I know, lots of disagreement about this. I have been called a Zionist, people have tried to show me these awful propaganda pieces by David Duke and other groups which are being spit out all over the internet, and my Liberal friends are angry at me about gay marriage and my stand on Israel.
However, I was helping a client in the office the other day with his bill. We finished our business and as he left he turned around, and he said, “Hey, good bracelet, and thank you”. My bracelet indicates my stand for Israel. We stared at each other and smiled. Shoresh brother.
Report Post »amjs
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:17pmGood for you Tretka! May I mention that I have always found the term “secular Jew” to be an oxy-moron. I have never understood how any person with such a rich heritage could ever call themselves “secular” but then that’s human nature. I am a Christian who supports Israel. No matter what comes, I know God wins…..it makes me so happy!
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:05pmAmerican Dim Jews have asked for THAT, forever. Good for Netanyahu!
Report Post »babylonvi
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:44pmHe is actually right. The number of American Jews who still support Obama is all the proof you need.
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:09pmAmen!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:12pmAgree … they need to wake up .. perhaps a trip to Israel would help. I see nothing wrong with saying so.
TEA!
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:15pmI dont understand that either. How can an American Jew support an American President that thinks like Hitler
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:23pm@ et al, Obama doesn‘t and Jews aren’t. How can you think ignorant thoughts about people who are strangers to you? Have you ever had a serious conversation with Jewish people? Have you ever asked them why they don’t want to support someone like Huckabee or Perry or Bachmann or Palin? You might be surprised if you did.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:15pmMexico needs an ad like that.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:11pmYour fight is with the Arabs, not eachother.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:09pmWhat is needed are ads trying to get Muslims to move out of the West and into lands already subjugated and destroyed by Islam. Appeals could be made to their patriotism saying that if they really love America they will leave to save it from being Islamized.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:48pmOK.. I use to work for a Jewish man.. one of the best bosses I had BTW .. in their family they celebrated the Jewish holiday but also Christmas.. however their REAL traditions were JEWISH.. Christmas was celebrated as a American holiday.. like the 4th of July.. I can see where it would upset AMERICAN JEWS they are scared to go back to Israel with all that is going on there.. they have become more accustomed to a easier life..however I am thinking he wants them to at least REMEMBER and like we want our government to do go BACK to their ROOTS.. least they lose that like we are losing ours.. it’s a call to arms for them to take back their faith.. like ours a call to arms to take back our country.. NOTHING WRONG with that and it should OFFEND no one or at least those who BELIEVE in their faith (or their country)..
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:50pmMy husband is Jewish, I am a Catholic. We raised our children as Jews. My husband is a Reform Jew, my daughters prefer the Conservative tradition. None of us has been to Israel, none of my husband’s siblings or parents have been there, either. His father’s family came in the 1840s, around the time of the Irish Immigration. His mother’s family came around 1910. Both of his parents were born in the U.S. before Israel existed, they viewed themselves as Americans. My Father-in-Law was a career soldier. None of the family is Zionist. My husband and daughters believe in the two state solution. All of them have a strong Jewish identity, but they are Americans first and Israel is a foreign country. They do not keep Kosher and have no desire to. They are not unusual for American Jews. Glenn has fallen in with Religious Zionists in Israel and the U.S., they are a small group in both places.
Report Post »Tretka
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:09pmDesert Rose- Do not fall into the lie.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:18pm@DESERTROSE1960
Report Post »So …Basically at best you and your husband are what the Bible calls “lukewarm” .
But I’ll bet you and yours reside ,all the way to the other side of the spectrum, that being atheist, with a heavy ,self hating dose ,of anti-Semitism ,mixed with a equal portion of Socialistic, Marxist Ideology, that incorporated the plight of the American Black and Hispanic races and then induce sympathy for the illegal aliens that is a plague to our country.
Just to throw in a dig on the GOP and Glenn Beck .
Way to go…!
That gives you a…. Queen high straight flush….!
Straight to heII…!
sawbuck
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:31pmOh ..My bad ..
Report Post »Your cuts to the..GOP and to the “Tea party”
were on your other post on this story.
YepImaConservative
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:47pm“Abraham Foxman, the national director for the Anti-Defamation League, called the ads “unsubtle, crude and heavy- handed.”
“I think it’s offensive. It comes out of an ignorance. Most Israelis don’t understand how American Jewish life works,” he told The Associated Press.
He’s probably right in a way. If I were Israel, I wouldn’t want the many self-loathing, Liberal voting Jews from the U.S. anyways. I would search elsewhere if I were looking for dedicated Jews for immigration. Many here are a lost cause and have lost their faith. It’s apparent by their actions and how they vote.
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:09pmI’ll never understand how libbytard jews support a party that empowers people who want them wiped off the face of the earth. Talk about digging your own grave.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:57pm@obamanation, Funny, that‘s the reason a lot of Jews won’t support the TeaParty. Many of you “stand” with Israel, but you can’t “stand” any of the Jews around you. When Christians start talking about “Christian Values” and “Judeo-Christian Values” most Jews figure that you’re talking in code and it means that you will try to convert them as soon as you get the chance. Recently, some news show talked about why Jews felt “left at the altar” by GOP politics, and then someone pointed out that Jews don’t get married at an altar, Jews marry under a Chupah. It‘s the same reason that Blacks and Latinos won’t join the TeaParty in large numbers, they feel like they aren ‘t wanted when you talk about social programs and “illegal aliens”.
Report Post »Tretka
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:11pmDesert Rose-If you are an American before you are a Jew, why the offense to the Tea Party. All of your comments are confused.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:12pm@Treka, I’m sorry, my comments are “confused”? Yours are crytic at best and bizarre at worst. I clearly stated I am a Catholic. Why the “offense” to the TeaParty? Mostly because the TeaParty is made up of naive political neophytes who want to “take the country back” from Liberals and minorities and people who aren’t like them. Most of you make wild assumptions about Liberals that aren’t based in reality, let alone what Liberals are really like. And you make up stuff about Jews. You fail to understand how Jews can live a conservative, traditional lifestyle and yet vote for Liberals who will allow others to live as they choose, even if it is very different from their choices. Jews make up 1% of the population in the U.S., which means that most of you here have never even met one, let alone talked about who they are and what makes them tick. You’re commenting on things that you know nothing about. Beck has said multiple things that have deeply offended many American Jews, and he still claims to be “ a friend of the Jew”, which is DEEPLY offensive to all the Jews I know.
Now, I will grant that my comments could be more indepth, but I am limited to 1500 characters and most of you don’t really want to hear the whole Megillah anyway. I spend a good deal of time coming up with my posts, most of the time, I get counterposts like yours, brief, cryptic and confused, if I’m lucky. Often, I just get really filthy insults hurled at me. I just consider the sour
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:56pmDESERTROSE1960 posted: “Jews make up 1% of the population in the U.S., which means that most of you here have never even met one, let alone talked about who they are and what makes them tick.”
Sorry, DESERTROSE1960, but I do know what “makes them tick.” My mother was an Irish Catholic and my father was a WASP. My mother shared the Jews’ hatred of the WASPs and up until Ronald Reagan ran for President, she was a diehard Democrat. She belonged to a Mah Jongg Club and had many Jewish friends. When I was a little boy, she started sending me to the JCC. So I HAVE talked to many different Jews and have heard what they think and feel about a great many things. I have been there many times and heard what many different Jews thought about Israel, America, the goyim, their shiksa daughter-in-laws, and what the summer they spent at a kibbutz was like. And all of it was UNFILTERED
And ironically, I have NO LOVE of Israel, I DON’T believe that Jews have been persecuted SOLELY because they were “too Jewish” as you have said. And most IRONICALLY, I am, like you have claimed to be, often insulted, hated, and even CENSORED on this website forum. Funny, isn’t it?
Report Post »Friedomfighter
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:46pm“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.” – Deuteronomy 6:4-7
Unless you are taught by your family about a love for your country (US, Israel, or any country for that matter) your desire to stay loyal to it will diminish. Patriotism doesn’t come from the ignorant, it comes from those who are taught it. The American Jews that are “offended” by these ads are those who feel “convicted” for not staying true to their roots. If they have a deep love for Israel, they would shout, “AMEN!“ Not ”OMG! I can’t believe they would say something like that!”
It’s possible to love both countries but still stay true to the roots of your heritage. America is a country that allows you celebrate your heritage while being amongst others. As long as the roots of who you are, are not cut off, then there shouldn’t be any worries.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:03pmMy husband and daughters are Americans first, and Jews second, which is a religious tradition and an ethnic hertitage. They are not Israelis, have never been to Israel and have only minimal interest in visiting. Being an American Jew is their roots. Thousands of generations of Jews were born and died between the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, their “roots” had nothing to do with the existence of Israel. Does that make them less Jewish? Certainly not, since their keeping of Jewish law got them killed out of lots of countries and forced into ghettos and the edges of society for most of that time. They were seen as “too Jewish” to be loyal to the country they were born into.
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:12pm“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.” Matthew 6:24
I am shocked by your statement, FRIEDOMFIGHTER, you must know that it is absurd to believe that you can be loyal to TWO countries. The last time I posted about the vile practice of our US State Dept. turning a blind eye to Jews having citizenship in BOTH the USA and ISRAEL, theBlaze editors censored the post. But it is NOT legal for US citizens to have concurrent citizenship in another country but MOST Jews do anyway. It is NOT reasonable to believe that loyalty can be maintained to BOTH countries!
And sorry, DESERTROSE1960, but I don’t believe you either. Jews blame ALL Christians for the Holocaust and every other bad thing that ever happened to your people. I am a goy, I will NEVER be an equal to you. You fear me, hate me, and are eternally suspicious of me no matter what I might do to prove otherwise. You believe that it is your religious right to rule over me and my people and that I am no better than an insect to you. How could you expect me to believe that you stay here in my country because you are a proud American? You are here as my jailer. You are here only keep an eye on me and to take part in the spoils of the modern land of Goshen for the sake of World Jewry if not for Israel. No more lies please. What you do speaks louder to me than what you say.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:17amI am not sure how Desertrose1960 can say she is Catholic because when you go to the pre-marriage meetings you are asked how you plan to raise your children and if you plan on raising them Catholic. So she really is not a real Catholic. She yielded that to the man she married. Being Catholic doesn’t mean much to her……..so what exactly does being American first mean to her? (exactly?)
Report Post »chips1
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:44pmThe majority of Jews in America couldn’t find Israel on a map. Why do they have so many ads on TV that show elderly Jews starving to death? Something smells. Where are the Jewish entertainers in Hollywood with their check books?
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:21amYes, where are the many Jewish in the entertainment industry with their checkbooks? H. Weinstein? They have big mouths but are living the lavish lifestyle. If they really cared they would open their wallets WIDER without it being a required tax.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:10pmThe video was from Alajuela . Last I remember this was a Propaganda machine for Al-Qaeda. Has this changed? Or Now has it become a reputable new organization?
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:15pmRon Paul’s War: Dr. Paul supports using “letters of marque and reprisal.”
These are, in effect, licenses to private parties to carry out acts of war. We used them against the Barbary pirates. Almost immediately after the attack on the World Trade Center, Dr. Paul introduced in the 107th Congress H.R. 2076, called the September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001, authorizing holders of the letters to go after bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders and seize them and their property. He also voted to give President Bush authority to use the military to go after Al Qaeda, but he has been pressing for letters of marque ever since.
Dr. Paul’s bill would have covered not only past attacks but any “planned future air piratical aggressions and depredations” against us. It would have given the president discretion to pay up to $40 billion in what were, in effect, bounties for the “capture, alive or dead, of Osama bin Laden or any other al Qaeda conspirator responsible for the act of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001.”
Dr. Paul said that one thing he wanted as to avoid a trillion dollar expedition when there was a simpler, constitutional approach of bringing the war to our enemy.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:32pm@Vechorik
Your post sums up the story nicely. ????????????????????????????????????????????
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:36pmIt was always a reputable new organization. The Bush administration falsely characterized it as an anti-American propaganda machine because they broadcast what we now know were accurate estimates of civilian casualties in the Iraq War. The administration needed to destroy their credibility in order to get Americans to accept their own propaganda at face value.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:31pm@vech
Report Post »Oh great! You come up with this Now, after im to old to hunt any more that a rabbit.
recoveringneocon
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:33pm@Chet
Report Post »See the name, im doing my best. Some things are just hard to change.
Bakko Bomma
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:07pmGreat ad.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:02pmAmerican Jews that are upset by his campaign need only remember one thing, they’re Americans. Why worry about those who want to move to Israel? If Scotland decided to declare its sovereignty from England and called for former and kin of Scots to move back there, I would be happy and then not really give it mind. I‘m an American and I’m not leaving the US. Pretty simple, insert your DNA’s recent nation(s) of origin not being the US and deduce your own answer. On another note, Netanyahu is a fantastic speaker, love hearing him.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:23pmI agree with you. I would see this as more honorable than anything if it pertained to my heritage. I understand why those in the US are upset, but they shouldn’t be. I don’t believe it was there intention to alienate them, but instead, to bring back and sustain a stronger lineage in the Jewish community. While I was living in Australia, I recall them saying something like, the very last true Tasmanian Aborigine had died , or there was only one left or something to that nature. Basically, the true lineage to the the native people of the land was at it’s end and the language, which is seems to be a phenomenon in itself, has been lost. A great number of natives to the land have lost their identity, culture, language, and genetic roots over time. The elders of the Aborigines speak of having great difficulty with the youth of today being worthy of passage of rights. But I digress, I suspect Israel is worried of the same thing. I did notice while living in Boca Raton Florida, which was primarily a Jewish community, that many of the people had some sort of I guess would be called a developmental problem or defect. Maybe it was just coincidence, and quite possibly maybe I am just completely ignorant to the reality of matters such as this, as it is only an observation, but I wondered if this wasn’t the result of, and I don’t mean this in a harmful way in any manner, but in-breeding. I mean, it has to happen if they wish to keep the authenticity in the family, but I maybe wrong.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:25pm“ If Scotland decided to declare its sovereignty from England”
Scotland is not a part of England.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:56pmThe crowns of England and Scotland are held together in London, England by the Queen of England and Great Britain, North Ireland and many other places. Scotland may have its own parliament and courts but its crown, money and foreign policy is Great Britain‘s and England’s. You may be correct come this time next year, Locked, but a referendum on independence still hasn’t taken place in the current Scottish parliament.
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