"Jewish atheism refers to atheism as practiced by people who are ethnically, and to some extent culturally, Jewish. Because Jewishness encompasses ethnic as well as religious components, the term "Jewish atheism" does not necessarily imply a contradiction."

If you claim this special merger of nationality and religion for Jews, which applies to no other race/religion on the planet, how do you explain American Jews, European Jews, Russian Jews, and a host of other Jews who did not emigrate from Israel, and are not Israeli, while you conflate Israeli with Jewish.

Seems that you want to have your cake and eat it and given the settlements, the bulldozing of homes etc. it would seem you also want a slice of cake belonging to others.

Israelis would not accept being held to ransom by a foreign power controlling their borders and food supply, and taking over chunks of their land. Why do they expect the Palestinians to accept it?

Israel of course, is the one with nukes and monstrously superior firepower, so why are they surprised that the sovereign state held in thrall to their whims and mood changes, uses whatever pathetic means they possess to retaliate.

This thread, like so many others, is concentrated on the wrong question. It isn't the fact that Israel is starving Gazans, it is that they can, whenever they choose.

Which of you would live under that threat and NOT want to fight back?

Don T.