""Cramped thinking, anyone? Judaism is both a religion and an ethnicity. For the most part the two sets coincide.""

NO! IT IS NOT!

The religion is Judaism.

The ethnicity, tragically, is Semite. I say tragically because it is the same ethnicity as the people they they are oppressing, and trying to destroy.

There is a crying need to expose this nonsensical insistance that a religion is the same thing as ethnicity, and the same thing as nationality.

It simply is not true.

There are Jews of every nationality on this planet, and the vast majority of the world's Jews have never even visited Israel.

Two thousand years ago, Palestine was a country of Jews and Arabs living together in harmony, who were being oppressed by Rome. Those Jews and Arabs were all Palestinians.

Today we have both Jews and Arabs living (rather more uneasily) side by side in Israel. Those Jews and Arabs are Israelis.

Then and now, the country has both Jewish and Muslim, as well as some Christians, but it is not a Jewish, nor a muslim, nor yet a Christian state.

By its actions, it is apparently a fascist state, wishing to expand into ever larger areas currently outside its legal borders. It does not care about world opinion, and is inhumane in the extreme, in its dealings with weaker opponents.

Does this ring any bells for those who can remember 60+ years ago?

Don T.