REFLECTIONS ON ZIONISM

Posted on by Kelley Kidd

KELLEY KIDD

Recently the comments of a friend have led me to do a little research about the State of Israel. She said she thought Israel was either a one race state or a one religion state. Eitherwhere a smaller percentage way she did not approve. A true democracy cannot consist of a citizenship or electorate that excludes all but one race, for example the Jewish race. It also cannot exclude from citizenship all but the followers of one religion, for example Judaism. I agreed with her, the n did a bit of research to find that Israel fits neither the one race nor the one religion mold.

Arabs compose 18 percent of the citizens of Israel and 11 out of 70 members of the Israeli one house legislature known as the Knesset. Eighteen percent of Israeli citizens are Muslims. Please contrast that with the United States where only seven percent of the citizens are members of some religion other than Christian, and neither house of congress has as strong minority representation as Israel. By the way, Hitler categorized Jews as a distinct “race”. Neither Judaism nor Jewish custom has ever described Jews as a distinct biological group. There are Jews who are black , brown, white , and yellow.

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Published by Kelley Kidd

I am a public defender who became a real lawyer more than 50 years ago. Graduated from Emory College in 1964 with high honors, and from law school 3 years later after becoming the editor in chief of The Journal of Public Law. Somewhere along the way I taught school in Baltimore Maryland, was an alcohol and drug counselor, faught forest fires in Idaho, ran an educational program for federal employees engaged in Johnson's War on Poverty, agitated against the War in Vietnam, studied Hebrew and the Judeo-Christian heritage for seven decades and survived many years of drunkenness. I am a lover of baseball, dogs and cats, guitar music and a certain lady in Baltimore I have not seen in 40 years. I live in the lovable small city of Statesboro Georgia. Four times a week I attend a meeting of a famous fellowship for drunks and try to get to Mickve Israel every Saturday in Savannah. I do not hate anybody and am a passionate American patriot.

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