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Oh, the irony.

You really take the cake with that comment.

Not interesting. No Jews involved.

Exactly. Israel had no choice in the neighborhood. The pie in the sky crew continues to see Palestinians as Canadians. DELUSIONAL.

It's a serious assertion. Look at history. It matters not what Jews do. The persecution always comes. That was the origin of Zionism liberation ideology -- that life in the diaspora wasn't working and the Jewish people needed poitical self determination.

Jew haters always have a new excuse for hating Jews.

Tragic indeed but pie in the sky naivety isn't going to be a winning answer either. The Palestinians are not Canadians.

If you're so dense that you didn't get the comparison to the covered Muslim woman in the west, then really, let's stop talking. NO POINT!

I'm certain the rebbe would have been fine with any religious garb his Saudi hosts sported.

Did I?

Could be that my friend was lower class and was treated like a SLAVE by the Saudis.

Israel should just leave the doors open for the terrorists?

I believe that you believe that. What makes you think that the wars will stop IF there is ever a two state solution? Anyway, the majority on both sides don't even want a two state solution but I guess for some it's their "white man's burden" to try to force that or at least give lip service to it.

No it didn't. The conflict is long lasting. This current war starting October 7.

Hamas is still on record as intending to repeat October 7s again and again and again until the Jews of Israel are no more.

Another one that never met a conspiracy theory that they didn't like.

There it is. Classic trope code. Do you even get the odiousness of what you're saying? Did I say that? A Muslim woman in the west who normally covers should be forced not to cover to be polite? If she doesn't, is she saying Muslims are more important? I'm not much interested in further discussions with the obviously bigotted.

An observant Jew wearing a kippah is NOT intolerance. If you cannot see that, there is no hope for you.

Non Jews probably don't get this. but the truth is that Jew hating which is always with us, has spiked up dramatically recently and that of course includes Jews who aren't Israeli, don't relate to Israel, and don't live in Israel. As a result Jews throughout the world are more and more voluntarily trying to make themselves less visible in order to avoid being attacked. That's not always possible if your last name is Goldberg or you look like Woody Allen. So it is common for men who would normally want to wear a kippah to choose not to out of fear. In other words, to HIDE. That is very sad that so many Jews feel the need to do that but that's the way it is. But if you're meeting on the topic of religious tolerance, it seems to me that would not be the time to hide your religious and ethnic identity.

I call B.S. The guy is a RELIGIOUS Jew. Not just a Jew. A RELIGIOUS Jew. The meeting was about RELIGIOUS tolerance. He was being forced to NOT be religious. The gaffe is on the Saudi side.

That's interesting. A Pinoy guy I knew told me about his experience being a guest worker in Saudi. A typical Catholic Pinoy he carried a cross in his luggage. It was found, confiscated, and he was beaten. Religious tolerance, my ass!

You're imagining what I think and that is sleazy. I do find people that use the colonialization word are the types that don't recognize that Jews are indigenous to Israel. I also stand by my assertion that Hamas cares NOTHING about the welfare of their own people, in THIS life anyway,

You continue to play act that you didn't get the point.

Nothing new Israel cares more about Palestinian civillians than Hamas does.

You're suggesting that the USA should make its Jews invisible in a country so important to Abrahamic religions? That's despicable.