re israel an apartheid state in article may colorado edu perlman qso colorado edu eric s perlman writes in a word utter and complete horse puckey look the term up in the dictionary ok lets look into this according to my dictionary zi on ism an international movement orig for the establishment of a jewish national or religious community in palestine and later for the support of modern israel now i do not support the establishment of nations based on religious principles while i support the establishment of nations based on cultural identities so here are some questions i have to ask for anyone to answer my point is what someone said long time ago in politics like with men it is important to distiguish between what they say they do and what they are actually doing my mother is jewish and so is my father if i apply for the law of return do i get in as a jew trying to return to his land from which my family was expelled about years ago if i go back which nationality would my id show if i decided to go back to the land from which my relatives had been expelled years ago but first i convert to any other religion can i apply to the law of return as a member of the jewish nation or should i apply as someone whose mother is jewish which nationality would show my id in case what has change in me between the day before and the day after i converted to loose my being part of the jewish nation suppose i want to get married to my current wife who is non jewish in israel how do i do it how would my situation change if i decided after going back to israel to convert to islam now here is one more question i do believe that most people in a country do not care about politics they just want to be left alone suppose my father is arab suppose he was born in palestine in some place which now is part of israel suppose that his father and his grandfather as well as or generations before him were born in that place now suppose there is a war of independence and my father scared by all the fighting going on tries to take his family to a place more secure among people he knows who speak a language he understands who worship the same god now suppose that that place is some other arab country and now suppose that the war is over and that there is a new country created where my father used to live and that that country is called israel and that in that country jews from all over the world are received and that people whose family left thet country generation ago are recieved and granted full citizenship should i if i decided to go back to my father s land where he was born as or generations of my family were born have the right to go back and ask to be recognized in the same way those who are returning after years then finally people ask me how i would define a jew but that is irrelevant i am not talking about how i would define a jew but about how people in zionist organizations and more important in israel define a jew how would those who are zionist define a jew eric s perlman perlman qso colorado edu center for astrophysics and space astronomy university of colorado boulder aap
