>>>Why do you think the Americans supported the forming of the country Israel in 1947? They wanted to get them as far away from USA as possible. :-)
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>>>Being Jewish myself, I find this remark stupid, offensive, highly insulting and not at all funny even if you meant it as a joke. Unless you are Jewish, making Jewish jokes is a form of anti-semitism.
>>
>>Hi Marcia
>>I think you are taking it a bit to far.
>>
>>Real anti-semitisam has far deeper roots and centuries long history. Starting from
>>early christianity time and biblical scripts (falsehoods), via darknnesses of middle ages and all the way to ww2 and nazi Holocaust.
>>
>>To accuse someone of being anti-semit would imply person's deep hatred that might be rooted party in religion, partly in badly predgidist upbringing, and/or belonging to some KKK or right-wing cookoo nazi party or intelectual group.
>>
>>Real Anti-semitisam is something that defenetely needs to be condemned and fought against, but when people fling it without
>>any bases, on meaningless joke, or whenever someone publicly disagree with Israel policies, then this actualy de-valuate very idea
>>of those who fought against nacisam, racisam, anti-semitisam throughout the history.
>>
>>When word 'anti-semit' is thrown indiscriminately without any bases, then this is in my opinion very deep insult to a person
>>that it is used against, and up to the point insult to the intelligence of person who used it without really realising
>>full meaning of that word.
>>
>>If you say anti-semit to some KKK rally member you might be right on the mark, but in this case with Tore,
>>I believe you got it all totally wrong.
>>
>>With all due respect
>>Sergio
>
>She's not. I agree with her and so does Tore..

You both emphasized word 'them' , 'who is them' which might be taken wrong or sting as insulting
beyond my comprehension of english as a language. But I took his post as simple joke. Nothing else.