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Literary Prize: Howard Jacobson Should Not Win The Booker Prize For This Novel

First Posted: 09/29/10 03:59 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:50 PM ET

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The Guardian:

Jacobson should not win because he has played up to the vague notions of the reviewers and judges and flattered them into thinking that, in The Finkler Question, he has something interesting to say about "Jewishness".

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11:10 PM on 09/29/2010
Why do right wing fanatical Jewish settlers cling to the belief that they are God's chosen people and use this to justify crimes and threats of violence against Palestinians?

Jews lived in Europe and intermarried with European Christians and had children with them for nearly 2000 years, many of these Jews converted to Christianity.

Many of their descendents then migrated to the United States. Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America.

The truth is that if most Europeans, European Americans, Central Americans and South Americans had a blood test done today, hundreds of millions of us would likely have some Jewish blood/genetic traits....God's chosen people are now all over the earth my friends. (and likely many African Americans, who are almost all now believed to have some European/Jewish blood/genetic traits based on recent genetic studies.....go figure).

I guess God didn't lie. Abraham's seed has now spread throughout the earth, as God promised.
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