HP’s reasoning to the effect that one’s ethnicity is defined where one is born is faulty.

Let’s take his logic and apply it to the case of today’s Palestinians, who worldwide now include perhaps 6,000,000 people.
Perhaps a 10th of today’s number was displaced because of the 1948 war with Israel. 60 years later probably not many of the original Palestinian refugees are still alive. To apply HP’s logic, only the original refugees have any claim to “Palestine.”

Their descendants do not.

In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical “Shem”, Hebrew: שם, translated as “name”, Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages. This family includes the ancient and modern forms of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ge’ez, Hebrew, Phoenician, Maltese, Tigre and Tigrinya among others.

From Wikipedia - and before you call it a rag - it is actually pretty much agreed upon -check with your rabbi - I am sure he will agree. In additon : The semitic people are:
Akkadians — appear 4th millennium BC and amalgamate with non-Semitic Mesopotamian (Sumerian) populations into the Assyrians and Babylonians of the late Bronze Age[1][2]
Assyrians (Aššūrāyu) — 20th century BC[citation needed]
Babylonians — 18th century BC[citation needed]
Chaldeans (Kaldu) — 8th to 6th c. BC[3][4]
Eblaites — 23rd century BC
Akhlames 14th century[5]
Aramaeans — 16th to 8th century BC[6][7]
Ugarites, 14th to 12th centuries BC
Canaanite language speaking nations of the early Iron Age:
Amorites
Ammonites
Edomites
Hebrews — founded the kingdom of Israel and Judah, the remnants of which became the Jews
Moabites
Phoenicians — founded Mediterranean colonies including Carthage
Old South Arabian speaking peoples
Sabaeans of Yemen — 9th to 1st c. BC
Aksumites — 4th c. BC to 7th c. AD
Arabs, Old North Arabian speaking Bedouins
Lihyanites — 6th to 1st c. BC
Thamud people — 2nd to 5th c. AD
Ghassanids — 3rd to 7th c. AD
Nabataeans — adopted Arabic in the 4th century AD

Finally - it is pretty much agreed - that a lot of the Bible is NOT historical fact (sorry folks - but one must remember that the current version is a compilation of texts and many were rejected - it is neither definitive or cmprehensive). For example go here -not very far actually - this very SITE in fact http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/the-anti-empire-report-2/
In this article - the paucity of archeological evidence that the kingdoms of David/Solomon actually ever existed is addressed.

In additon: Nte that Abraham is ’said’ t be born around 2000BC - hence MANY extant and advanced cultured were present BEFORE the ‘chosen’ ones. A FACT - that there is an eerie similarity regarding the Garden of Eden/Serpent etc to Genesis - to the tale of Gilgamesh - which was actually published on tablets - waay before the bible.

Also - it is NOW -established that the major pyramids were builts before 2500 BC -BEFORE the brth of Abraham- and that they moved from Sumeria (Iraq) to Cannan (Palestine) and LEFT Palestine due to famine - around 1600 BC. They THEN left Eypt around 1200BC however the MOST important thing is that is becoming scientifically ‘proved’ that the pyramids were NOT constructed by slaves for a definitive reply please go here (http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/070391.html) - however the original impetus was actually a Swedish researcher - who not suprisingly gets NO credit.

As for the Ashkenazi’s that is pretty well documented. After all we can’t be your library- but sure are gald to help you see that the other side of the story - is not entrenched in religious doctrine that is taken as the ‘de-facto’ truth - but rather an unending ssupply of real world scientific discoveries that cast more and more light of examination on accepted doctrine and worse false premises to usurp homelands people have no right to.

A couple of sandwiches short of a picnic.

Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinech were the only members of congress to vote against a call to charge Ahmadinajad with violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.

http://rabbiyonah.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/ron-paul-and-dennis-kucinech-how-do-you-say-israel-must-be-wiped-off-the-map/

So who are you to decide who has what kind of blood in their body. Do you want to perform some kind of test on the 7 million people in Irael?

In the name of peace and social justice.

2) Well, Duh. All of us non-Jews are acutely aware of our “lesser children of God” status, according to the OT. A five year old could figure this out. Just tell him the other five year old is God’s favorite and see what happens. Once again, you snot, Duh.

3) See #1 above, see #2 above, see # 4 below, see #5 below.

4) A country which recognizes no laws except those which it wishes to recognize, has no accountability to the UN as per 60+ ignored resolutions, has no extradition treaties, spies on the USA and sells information to our enemies, practices apartheid, assaults its neighbors anytime it perceives a threat real or not, is a criminal entity.

5) See #1, 2, 3, 4, and I plead guilty of agreeing with every poll I’ve ever seen, all naming Israel as the #1 greatest threat to peace in this world.
Face it Jaime, until they free themselves of the Zionist cretins who control their government, no one likes them, respects them, wants them. Hey, it’s a tough world. Especially when you are seen as a source of trouble, lies and misery. That’s the word on the street..

6) Despite your typically deceitful tactic of adding something completely irrellevent as this, something I never said, I’ll answer anyway, you conniving snot..
I’d do exactly what Ron Paul would do.

7) They aren’t the only ones. What happens to everyone else in this case?
Again, I’d do what Ron Paul would do.

OK Here’s hp’s carefully thought out post with an eye to “the struggle for peace and
social justice.

“The Zionist pseudo-Semites, with their illusions of choseness cannot comprehend the word no. In any way shape or form.
Jaime and his inability to ever admit the phony baloney democracy is or ever could be capable of wrong doing, is the epitome of racist religious psychopathic behavior. A pariah by any other name, as evidenced by Israel’s dishonor of being the most despised nation, country, crime syndicate, whatever, on earth.”

1) Define Pseudo- Semites. What distinguishes a pseudo semite from a presumably real semite?

2) What is an illusion of chosenness?

3) Describe in detail examples of presumably Israeli/Jewish racist religious psychopathic behavior.

4) List evidence of Israel as a “crime syndicate.”

5) Why is Israel a pariah state to you?

6) If Israel has no right to exist then what would you do about the 7 million people living there?

7) Simultaneously with the UN declaring Israel a state in 1948 900,000 Jews in North Africa and Arab countries suddenly became stateless and were exiled without any of their possessions or holdings. What would you do with these 900,000 people?

ROR

Until then there will be no peace - and short of total destruction military power is impotence - just ask the US military.