If that's the case, then they have less rights to be there than their more continuously-occupying neighbors...who are many christians...and logically the ones we, as a predominantly christian nation, should be behind..the palestinians.
Let's look at what Andy wrote:
Jews are not jews from ancestory any more than christians are christians from ancestory. You either ascribe to the faith or you don't. I, for instance, could become a jew if I studied the Torah, passed the hebrew lessons and was formally inducted into a temple. The jewish guy I dated spoke with me about this. So even though I'm not of some long lineage of jewish people (although one or two of my ancestors happend to practice judiasm), I still could be a jew.
So faith is the determining factor. Andy, you like to jump around on both sides of the fence with this one. On the one hand you tell us to excuse the "jews" that are bombing on the Sabbath..due to some human-made technicality. Yahweh did not make an 11th Commandment that said: "Oh, by the way, if these first 10 don't suit you, you can ad-lib." The Ten Commandments are held higher than any else of the lesser and many insist: human ad-libbed laws. Then when that argument sinks in you flip over to 'well it doesn't matter because the bombers are secular jews.
No, they're not jews if they are secular any more than someone who is secular is also, simultaneously christian. I once heard this extremely hedonistic woman I know, who used to be devout christian, say "you either live by the rules or you don't." She proudly waved the flag of "don't". And I remember my respect for her actually climbing instead of sinking because of how many "christians" I know who warm pews and then go back home the other 6 days of the week and do as bad as she did, or worse, but were sure they were "saved" (and therefore hypocritically judgmental of others) because of going through the motions of "being faithful".
You either follow the Ten Commandments or you don't. You are either a jew, or you're not.