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Old 11-01-2007, 05:31 PM   #11
Radar
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey View Post
It is very different, because "Chinese people" are "people from China". "Jewish people" is not a synonym for "people from Israel".

If the Kurds decide that they want their own country, and claim territory from the nations they are living in, your view on that claim is not synonymous with your view of the Kurdish people.
Wrong. Israel is the land of the Jews. It's the Jewish homeland in the same way China is the homeland of the Chinese. You can't legitimately separate the two.
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