I suppose that the term, race, is inappropriate if it is used to define the Jews. Nation is more accurate (a nation is an allience of tribes) but modern times have redefined ancient words. I do not use the term, "racists", to describe those who appear biased against the Jews. For those folks, we use the term, "anti-Semites", even though that is not, technically, correct. It is also undeniably proper to include other tribal survivors from that area in the nation. I doubt that they (the Hashemites, the Bedoins, the Druze, etc) would wish to be Jews but, if they did, I would welcome them back into the family.
And it is a family, not better or worse than other families. If we are different than other tribes or nations or peoples, it is only that we have managed to survive, pretty much intact, for thousands of years and, until 1948, we did it as strangers in many strange lands.
I hold no grudge with Moslems in general or Palestinians in particular. I believe that the Palestinians should have a state of their own. My experience as a Jew has shown me the need for a people to have their own state. The Palestinians have been exploited for centuries because, without their own state, they were forced to work for others, often in other Arab countries. Like the Irish in England and the Chinese in America, the Palestinians provided cheap labor for wealthier Arab landowners. (Here's a little ammo for my adversaries. The Israelis have used them as underpaid labor, too. It is only the power of the Histadrut, the national labor union, that has required equal pay for Arabs and Jews. But Bosses are bosses the world around and I have no doubt that non resident Palestinian, Syrian and Lebonese
workers are often taken advantage of.)
I do have one hell of a bone to pick with people who want to kill me or my children. I am intolerant of terrorists. I dont care why they want to kill me or my children. Frankly, Our lives are not negotiable.
I will not lay down and die to satisfy someone else's political agenda. I dont hurt other people, I dont exploit other people, I dont
kill other people who have things I want. I dont deserve to be killed.
Neither do you, Carol. Your politics and your motives may be an affront to me, but I dont think, for one minute, that you should be killed for them. Sincere people can disagree. They can even be pejudiced in their beliefs. But Israel, and now the USA, are dealing with an enemy who kill without concience or apparent motive, and an enemy who kill non combatents in random lands. That you cannot see the unique danger posed by these groups suggests, to me, either blinders or an anti_jewish predisposition.