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Subject I HAVE A QUESTION I'VE BEEN AFRAID TO ASK!

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I don't see the point of this thread.  The OP starts off 
talking about Israel and then goes on to talk about Jews.
That's a lot like starting off talking about Italy but
then wanting to talk about Catholics.

Just accept that people like to follow different religious 
beliefs and don't paint whole peoples with a broad brush.
That family who lives near you who are Jews have no more
to do with what Israel does than the Catholic family a
few doors down have to do with what the Vatican does.

This is part of the reason why I dislike religion so much.
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The Israel articles made me wonder about these questions. Its more like how I might see an article about Italy or Rome and think about Italians.

Israel is supposed to have a large population of people who consider themselves Jews, distinct of their religious beliefs. These people consider themselves distinctly jewish, but they may be atheist or any other religion.

They do this because many of them come from families whose mothers mothers mothers were jewish or something like that, I'm not totally sure how it works.

Really I was just wondering what really if anything makes them distinct from other people, and how other people are not also Jews, if they can be jews, and how.
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Original Message [Others may have answered this question but please feel free to share your opinions on the following matter despite what other people have posted so far]

Please use this thread to ask questions that you have been afraid to ask, maybe you'll get the answers you want here?

Here is my original question for this thread:

I've been kind of afraid to ask this question on here. I've seen some threads popping up about Israel, or some by Israelis, and just once in a while a whole bunch of talk about Israel starts.

I've been afraid to ask this question because I've been worried about what people might think of me for asking.

I wanted to ask in those threads, but I was too concerned about people's opinions because I thought they might get nasty about it.

Some of you may have noticed in some of my posts I like to question things and I seem to believe that it is difficult if not impossible to know we know anything for certain.

So I wanted to ask this radical question. Please don't attack me for asking it, and please try to understand the idea behind it. (It may be a few questions actually)

What is the difference between a Jewish person and everyone else?

Please don't answer right away, let me ask in some other ways to make it more clear what I'm asking:

How are we not all Jews?

If some of us are Jews, and some of us are not Jews, what differentiates Jews from everyone else?

Can the people who are currently not Jews, be Jews?

Can the "Palestinians", the "Arabs", and any other people, be Jews too?

Was Adam a Jew?

What is a Jew?

The idea behind these questions is that people both for and against Israel and Jews seem to make them distinct from every other group of people on the planet. But what really makes them distinct from other people, if anything at all?

What if everyone was a Jew?

What if every single person on the Earth, despite their politics and ideas, was actually a Jew?

Is being a Jew a blood thing? Don't we all have human blood?

What if the people living in Israel, despite their ancestry and religion, are all Jews?

What if everyone in the whole world was a Jew currently?

I think I even lost what I was asking.

Basically, I wanted to ask, what is a Jew, and what if everyone was a Jew, then what would be the distinction?

Is this about genetics? Aren't we all part of the human race?

Is this about religion? Don't most religions believe in the same monotheistic God?

I wonder if anyone (including myself) even understands what I'm getting at.

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