Elsewhere on these blogs, someone has raised the issue that denying the Jews the right to self-determination is anti-Semitic.
But why?
After all, Jews are a spiritual/religious group, not a national/social one. What binds us is religious ritual and liturgy, not national grouping or characteristics. While not disputing that about 2000 years ago, Jews were forced out or left their homeland, should every group forced to leave have a right to self-determination? What about groups that have been ousted by foreign invaders? The Sioux? The Apache? Maoris and Australian Aborigines? Descendants of the Inca and the Azteca? Should they have a right to self-determination? And anyway, can any of us determine for certain how far back our family trees go? Can anyone reading this actually go back more than 400 years?
And what is self-determination? What if a majority of Jews doesn't actually want a separate statehood? How does one decide if a majority does or doesn't?
And haven't the strictly Orthodox got the right idea about Judaism, that Zionism put the cart in front of the horse and only when the Messiah comes, should we Jews have a state?