Barak Ravid ,Haaretz Correspondent: Official: Israel has no illusions on truce, expects Gaza flare-up
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Title:#11 This applies to all the Jews too, Dagma?
Name:Johnboy
City: SydneyState: Australia
D: "An Englishmen born in China as did his father and even his grandfather too, will not make him Chinese ... nor will an Arab living in Palestine make him a `Palestinian` simply because he is an Arab."

I assume this also applies to all those jews who came from Europe, the Americas, Russia, etc. during the period of the British Mandate and, indeed, all the long decades after 1948???

Which would be, oh, pretty much all of the Jews of Israel, would it not????

If I read your "logic" correctly then only those Jews who never left the land after the Romans scattered all the rest of them to the four winds really count.

All the rest are Johnny-come-lately`s who have no real claim to be regarded as indigenous to the land now called "Israel".

Which would be, well, about as many as could fill a really teeny-tiny synagogue, I would suggest...