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Identity Crisis

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01 Mar 2011 10:27 AEST

sharon

From: Manly

identity crisis

I was thinking by looking at the guy worshipping as a christian jew how come he himself is a racist with those immigrant kids? His statements about go back home to your country is superficial hypocrite christian jewish... nobody likes what happend to the jews with the nazis ..... why this racist now with these innocent beautiful filipino hebrew kid?

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01 Mar 2011 10:26 AEST

Diana

From: Adealide

Unfair

And yet we all forgot who suffering the most here. What about the Palestinians, there land was stolen over 50 years ago and now they are behind prison wall in there own country!!

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01 Mar 2011 10:26 AEST

Chris

From: Cherrybrook

Preserving Judaism

Israel is the global home country for those of Jewish ethnoreligious heritage. This trait requires Israel to be far more protective its cultural future than a secular nation. With a small landmass and a total population of 8 million it's cautious about the balance of it's demographics to conserve our place in the world. Particularly with hostile neigbouring countries, maintaining a strong national position is necessary to ensure our existance. These kids are only symbolic. It's a precedent.

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01 Mar 2011 10:26 AEST

Chris

From: Cherrybrook

No Pity for Migrants

Israel allowed these workers a conditional working visa to perform a needed task. These workers broke the openly violated the conditions of their visa. They shouldn't of been involved in romantic relationships. They shouldn't of had children. They shouldn't be overstaying their visa. This precendent may set a trend where migrant workers abuse their visa conditions to attain permanent living conditions. This could hurt future applicants who intend to work for Israel in good faith.

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01 Mar 2011 10:26 AEST

Roz

From: Brisbane

Chosen People

For years Catholics have been falsely labelled as anti-semitic because we oppose the hypocritical standards of Israel. Mistaken Jews like Babayoff believe that such double standards are THEIR unquestionable right because they believe that persons of the Jewish race are the only chosen people... All races are equally precious in the eyes of God and the Church. The OLD Testament is exactly that--OLD! It's about time Israel realised that the Messiah has been around for 2,000 years already.

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01 Mar 2011 10:25 AEST

greg johnson

From: nsw

radicals

Firstly babayoff and other supporters of the ultra right wing fascist lekkud party in Israel need to be forced from any position of power whatsoever,these people and their radical violent policies are no better than the Nazis and hezbola. it is unfortunate for Israel that these fascists are kept in power by radical settlers and others that support ethnic cleansing policies,especially where palistinians are concerned. Glad that their views are not supported by many Israelies,GET RID OF THEM!

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01 Mar 2011 10:17 AEST

Michael

From: Vic

A fine line.

The "pro-deportation" speaker is all law and no heart. The "anti-deportation" speaker is all heart and no law. The truth, however, is that this is purely racially motivated and that is being thinly whitewashed with the law. I say 'thinly' because Zionism's core principle is racism; having a Jewish majority in Israel is priority number one. These three factors, I believe, contribute to the overall question at hand.

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01 Mar 2011 10:15 AEST

RT

From: Sydney

Hypocrisy

I am astounded that Israel can be so hypocritical - the parrallels between this policy and the policies of right wing totalitarian regime's of the recent past are frightening.

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