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2. What Israel is doing re the Palestinians is bad. Israel itself, like most nations

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Original post)

Sat Jul 19, 2014, 02:28 PM

Jul 2014

is a mixed bag. It's kind of absurd to cast it as all bad as you're doing. Israelis aren't a monolithic group. Of course there are Buddhists who do crap things, But in conflating Israelis with Jews, you're making this about religion in a way that it is not. Buddhism is a belief system. Israelis don't have a common religious belief system the way Buddhists do. There are lots of atheist Jews for instance- in Israel.

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