I do not think this is correct.  I was under the impression that
citizenship would be granted regardless of ethnicity - there are, after
all, Israeli Arabs.  Further, Judaism is a religion rather than a
'race'.  There are a significant number of African Jews who are citizens of
Israel.

Alister

At 06:32 PM 19/03/2002, Bob Rogers wrote:
>Not sure I understand this 'somewhat ethnically Jewish'. Its been my
>understanding full citizenship can only be given to Jews, and to be
>accepted as Jewish the applicant must furnish proof that their maternal
>grandmother was/is Jewish.
>
>David Griffin wrote..
> >
> >Israel is a secular state. It is the extreme Zionists who want us to believe
> >that Israel is somehow implicitly "Jewish" in the sense of religion. Perhaps
> >it is somewhat ethnically Jewish, but that is an important distinction. But
> >the extreme Zionists actually go against Jewish scripture in supporting the
> >Israeli state as Jewish in a religious sense.
> >
> >-- David
> >



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