That is why BDS loves this story.

It would not matter who represented SodaStream...even if she had refused to represent them.

No help would have come to the Palestinians to pressure Israel to accept a fair agreement.

It matters to the BDS crowd and you are correct they don't give a damn about a fair agreement for the Palestinians . That's not part of their Raison d'être.

love about this story? The BDS movement is invested in the Palestinians receiving
a viable state..but it is also a somewhat fractured movement regarding
leadership.

Imo, BDS is not going to change anything to give the Palestinians a fair settlement.
The movement has been derailed, for one, by their politics, but most important, by
Kerry.

The US handed a framework to Bibi, one that contains, from what I have read, giving
him pretty much everything...but now Bibi wants more. BDS does not have the power
to change that, nor do they have the power of influence to change Abbas.

The United States wants a deal, and it looks like they will get it...Palestinians be damned.

Granted I'd rather learn Spanish, but I guess that takes more than a day.

Thanks Dave. It makes more sense why she'd be involved in representing Soda Stream now. Must be a difficult position to be in for her. I've always thought she was so beautiful, and a great actress. Nice eyes.

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Perhaps Scoot's analysis makes some sense.

On edit: I'm sure some will use her religion for their own partisan purposes.

The religion for those who believe is Judaism .

does their ethnicity change?

And developed quite the expertise .

Same as if you became Gazan .You live long enough within the community you assimilate completely and soon your part of a 3 State Solution , Gaza , Israel and the West Bank .

Go ask your question in the Jewish Group where it belongs .

that live in America, Europe or Israel.

Each group is completely identical to its other entity in a fore mentioned countries?

Is that what you are implying? I'm pretty damn sure that most people are individuals first, and not clone-ish as you might suggest.


But I noticed something again. You switched from arguing about religious identity (Jewish) as "ethnicity a people a nation" to defining Regions again: Gaza, Israel and the West Bank.

You also did that with Russia and a Baltic State.

You really need to think through what you are writing before jotting it down in I/P.

I have found that culturally Jewish People are very similar in Argentina as they are in Australia or France.

Hamas doesn't differentiate either .

Take this discussion to the Jewish Group and test the tolerance there for your "definitions" of Jews as a people.

No wonder you hold those views if yours.

Israel is The Jewish State and that has nothing to do with religion... Whatsoever .

Myself I am an atheist anyway I hold no religious views .

Okay.

My concern in I/P is with Israeli / Palestinian matters, and not if Scarlett Johansson is Jewish.

Now I did mention that there are probably some that will use her Jewish Identity for partisan purposes, and I believe that you fit comfortably into the category without the need for assistance.

So the next time you are in I/P and bring up a Jewish matter perhaps it is you that should take your own advice and take the discussion to the Jewish Group...instead of using I/P as your personal soapbox.

The Jewish State. Of course its a Jewish matter.....