The only way "the Palestinian problem" (how is it that people who would be horrified by the use of a term like "the Jewish problem" are able to use a term like "the Palestinian problem" without a second thought) has anything to do with religion is the extent to which those among the European Jews in Israel and occupied Palestine who are ethnically cleansing the Palestinians and subjecting them to apartheid in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are doing it for religious reasons.


I do think that these discussions make a difference. Not only in the Mudcat, but in the larger context as well. As I have said before, I see an enormous difference in public perception of this issue since I first started paying close attention to it in 2002. Nevertheless, I don't initiate them. I only post to them when they are initiated by others.