Confusing responses. Maybe "race" is not the appropriate word. Perhaps someone can tell us what a person is if he has the following background: He was born in Israel to Jewish parents. He chose not to follow the Jewish faith, and moved to Iran where he took up the Muslim faith. So he became a Muslim. Then he gave that up and moved to France and started going to a Catholic church. He became a Catholic. Still confused, he moved to Arkansas and fell in with some Mormons. He decided he would be a Mormon. Lastly, he decided all religions were bogus and became an atheist and moved to Florida. Okay, other than an atheist, what is he? Did he stop being a Jew when he quit the Jewish faith?
Were some of the Jews murdered in the holocaust not Jews because they believed something outside the Jewish faith? Did Hitler kill folks he thought were Jews but who actually worshiped Buda or Satan, so they were not really Jews? Is the hatred people hold for Jews because of what they believe, or because they are a different people? Can a Jew livin in New York City managing a business as a Jew and cleverly making money suddenly move to South Carolina and become a pig farmer ans not be a Jew?
I think, in the end, h who insist they know what it means to be a Jew, and they think Jews are inferior rather than surperior, are in deep trouble. Jews, the people that are God's chosen, might be the very fact that people can't accept. Obama is one such person. He has no regard for Jews. Hitler also wanted them eliminated to help him create a surperior race. He didn't have such a hatred of other people of the same color. Just the Jews.
If you don't believe the Jew population was an is the chosen people, proved someting concrete to back up your view. If you don't believe the U.S. should not protect Israel at all costs, explain that stance.