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   From: olive@LOSETHIScalpha.com   
      
   David Horne extrapolated from data available...   
      
   > Miguel Cruz  wrote:   
   >   
   >> There is a sizable group of very religious-seeming Orthodox Jews who   
   >> come out to every Palestinian-theme protest in DC and explain to   
   >> anyone who will listen why they feel the state of Israel's existence   
   >> is in contravention with God's wishes. I don't know what the group is   
   >> called but they definitely exist.   
   >   
   > I've heard of them, and I don't know what it's called- but I don't   
   > think it's very important here- other than no generalisation will be   
   > 100% accurate.   
   >   
   There are several well-established traditions which maintain that the   
   entire concept of a "Jewish State" is in direct contravention to God's   
   plan.   
      
   On the other hand, there are parallel traditions whose followers believe   
   that Israel is a state divinely inspired and supported by theology and   
   necessity.   
      
   Judaism seems to have a few less wandering threads than Christianity, but   
   there's no lack of diversity.  Then there are the non-religous Zionists,   
   who insist Israel's existence has nothing to do with Judaism and   
   aeverything to do with the right of Jews (as a sort of ethnic group, rather   
   than practitioners of a religion) to occupy a "Homeland".   
      
   I'm not sure how or why we could expect Zionists to be any more able or   
   likely to compromise than are many Palestinians.   
      
   TMO   
      
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