Opher Ganel
1 min readMay 1, 2024

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A lot of words masquerading as knowledge.

Take the above quoted example - Israelis don't use "God's promise" to prove ownership of the land of Israel. Jews have historical and archeological proof of having lived in this land for over 3000 years.

Since most Jews don't (as you assert) point to the bible as proof of our roots in the land of Israel, your faux comparison of Muslims claiming the same roots as descendants of Abraham is specious.

The modern justification for Israel's establishment was and remains that Jews, as an ethno-religious group (some Jews lean more into the religious aspects while the vast majority see the ethnic part as the important piece), have no other home than Israel.

Of 232 countries and territories in the world (https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2012/12/globalReligion-tables.pdf), 157 are majority Christian, 49 are majority Muslim, 7 are majority Buddhist, 3 are majority Hindi. Is it too much to ask that the Jews have one country where we can rule and protect ourselves? I think not!

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Opher Ganel
Opher Ganel

Written by Opher Ganel

Consultant | systems engineer | physicist | writer | avid reader | amateur photographer. I write about personal finance from an often contrarian point of view.

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