Acccording to my friend, I am Jewish

I am a JEW. It's official.

That is according to my friend H.

How did I warrant this honour? Well, it stared as a conversation, turned debate, turned argument, turned fight.

The gist of it was like this.

Me: Everyone should be allowed to study what they want to study

H: No, the government should decide what we should study.

Me: How can the government decide what we should study

H: Only the government knows what is best for the country

Me: What if the government wants someone to study medicine even though he faints at the sight of blood.

H: He will just have to study it.

Me: What about those studying privately?

H: Even they should not be allowed to study what they want. They should study what is good for the country

Me: that is ridiculous.

Blah blah blah fight fight fight


How did I end up being Jewish?


H: What if someone wants to study about another religion?

Me: Well, if someone wants to study about another religion so they should. It is not a bad thing to educate ourselves about other religions

H: You are saying it because you are a Jew. You should go and live in Israel

So it is official. According to my friend not only the government should dictate what we should study, I should also be living in Israel.

If he thought that by saying that to me that I will be offended, he cannot be more wrong. Israel incidentally is a very pleasant and beautiful country, nice place to live if you are Jewish. Ofcourse, if you are a Palestinian then it is a different story but my friend did not say that I should live in Israel because I am Palestinian. So by calling me a Jew, if he thinks I should be offended then he can think again.

By the way, if I should go and live in Israel, then don't you think my friend with his communistic views would fit well into Stalinist Russia? hehe

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