Sunshine
25d ago
I hope I'm coming across as more than 'sort of' parodying. Actually, my point is exactly yours, and I should probably have stated it more frankly since this is the Internet and tone does not convey at all. Maybe I should write out a more literal statement just to be safe:
If we have to kick out all the Jews who can't prove they've continuously occupied Israel since the Bronze Age, shouldn't we also have to kick out all the Arabs who can't prove they've continuously occupied Israel since the Bronze Age? Such as, for example, all of them?
Is there even a single person in the whole world who can actually prove the whereabouts of their family going all the way back to 2,000 BC? This whole thing seems like a selective demand that Jews specifically - and only Jews - must do something impossible or else be kicked out. It's like the Grandfather Clause, an impossible test applied to one ethnic group but not the other to create an excuse for oppression.
Can we send other ethnic minorities back where they came from as well?
Maybe all the blacks who can prove that they have continuously occupied America since 1776 can stay, but the new ones have to go back to Africa? The whites can all stay, though, no need to expel people who are part of the same ethnic group as the one that is 'supposed' to be there. As long as they're the same color as the people I like it doesn't matter what continent they were born on. The only people who have to prove that they're 'supposed' to be there are the ones from the ethnic group that I, personally, want to kick out of the country for unrelated political reasons.
I can speak French, I live in Quebec, I am used to people randomly switching languages in mid-conversation, and even I think using a French quote untranslated while speaking English is pretentious.
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