randomly killing the civilians -- who may have voted for a Hezbollah candidate???
Sorry -- but bombing the infrastructure of a whole country is called collective punishment.
Endless bombing of Gaza and the destruction of Jenin -- did not change the fact that Israel is treating a whole group as third class citizens.
Bottom line -- Israel is founded solely for one race -- Jews. I am a Gentile and I would not be welcome in Israel -- perhaps to spend tourist dollars -- but I am a "less than" . . ..
Jews and Gentile -- I was educated about this distinction by a Jewish friend.
"Why do you support Israel", she asked? I responded with the usual mantra --
She pointed out that since I was a Gentile I would not be welcome -- Israel was for Jews, it was established for Jews.
She said that in many places in Israel she would not be welcome because she was not Orthodox Jew -- even though her parents were Jewish (and German concentration camp survivors).
I believe that if the tax payers of the US knew just how much of our tax money is being shipper to Israel -- plus the fact that they as Gentiles would be discriminated against if they lived in Israel --- Americans would rethink their blind support of what ever Israel does.
Way back in my pedigree there may be a Jewish line -- Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition and eventually made their way to the Colonies. I suspect that most of us (if not ALL of us) have a few drops of Jewish blood from our distant ancestors (or nearer).
Gentiles . . .
Gentiles
(Heb. Gôyîm; Gr. ethne, ethnikoi, Hellenes; Vulg. Gentes, Gentiles, Graeci).
A word of Latin origin and usually employed in the plural. In the English versions of both Testaments it collectively designates the nations distinct from the Jewish people. The basis of this distinction is that, as descendants of Abraham, the Jews considered themselves, and were in fact, before the coming of Christ, the chosen people of God. As the non-Jewish nations did not worship the true God and generally indulged in immoral practices, the term Gôyîm "Gentiles" has often times in the Sacred Writings, in the Talmud, etc., a disparaging meaning. Since the spread of Christianity, the word Gentiles designates, in theological parlance, those who are neither Jews nor Christians. In the United States, the Mormons use it of persons not belonging to their sect. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06422a.htmThe word Gentile from the Latin gentilis, can either be a translation of the Hebrew Goy/גוי or of the Hebrew word Nochri/נכרי. In the most common modern use it refers to the former being derived from the Latin term gens (meaning "clan" or a "group of families") and it is often employed in the plural. In late Latin gentilis meant "pagan", and the term gentile has equally come to be used as a synonym for "heathen" or "pagan" (Nochri/נכרי).
In English translations of the Bible the word gentiles is most commonly used as a translation of the Hebrew word goyim (plural of Goy/גוי); in the King James Version the first and only such use in the Pentateuch is in the book of Genesis 10:5. Christian translators of the Bible use this word in the meaning of non-Israelite, to collectively designate the peoples and nations distinct from the Israelite people; the word is used that way over 130 times in the King James Version of the Bible. In the New Testament the word is used more specifically to indicate non-Jews.
As in the King James Bible, from the 17th century on this term was most commonly used to refer to non-Jews. However, this usage was in the context of European Christian societies with a Jewish minority. In multireligious and multiethnic societies the term is typically not seen as a synonym for "non-Jew", except in restricted contexts. Outside of Jewish circles, referring to a Chinese person as a "gentile" would be unusual. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile
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