Abu Nudnik
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM

I think he has a form of Stokholm Syndrome. "No Kill I," as the silicone-based life-form scrawled in the sand in one Star Trek episode.@Ted R. Welland: The Jews are most certainly the descendents of the ancient Israelites and Judahites. Your statement, "Consider that the Jews themselves admit that they are not genetic descendants of Jacob/Israel" is playing with words. The source you quote says only that it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite or Judahite a Jew because there is no agreement about when normative Judaism came into existence.Orthodoxy states at Creation with the Oral Torah. Others say when the first covenant was made with Abraham. Some say it came into being when Israel and Judah split since Ancient Israel only shared the first seven books of the Hebrew Bible. Some say during the Babylonian Captivity, when the Hebrew Bible was sealed or at the writing of the Mishna, depending on the school of thought. None of this has to do with genetic descent. In any case, the opinion of two Jews is pretty much the definition of a Jew going for a walk. To take this one opinion and say that it is the sole truth as you yourself twist its meaning is to state that all Jewry shares a common mind. That's nonsense. Chomsky vs. the author of this article, for example, disprove that.