Rabbis like this only do damage to Israel. He's of course correct in saying that antisemitism has nothing to do with Gaza children or Palestinians but to claim that gentiles are jealous of Jews is just ridiculous and it only makes it seems like he feels superior to everybody else. And nobody likes a guy who says he's better than you...

... also helps fuel anti-semitism.

i'm gentile and i'm truly jealous of chosen people. it's true. jewish can be settlers today, can use bullets and bomb, jewish can steal palestinian's homes and land... it's impossible for me in Europe to be a settler... yes, i'm jealous... rabbi ever true!!!!

#1 Istvan said it well; Jews have more brains and talents than non-Jews. Facts cannot be changed.

Chosen people, chosen land, chosen destiny. No amount of anti semitism, media slander and vilification and murder can change this.

Judging from history, there is not much to be jealous about being chosen by God of Israel.

Are Rational Enough To Know That If There Is A G_d He Loves All Of Us Equally! Yes he loves even the 'cattle'. You see, if your G_d loves you more than us then you should be able to understand the concept of racial superiority and the idea that my God sees my Goyim race as much superior to the Jewish race. That my race can see the Jewish race as a parasitic race of self-selecting moneylenders, thieves, war-mongers, social and moral degenerates. You could also understand why when given the opportunity, the Goyim race would always be in conflict with the Jewish race. Can you see where this foolish argument goes? Can you see where primitive organized religion takes humanity? Enough of these idiotic rabbis, mullah and priests. Why does Ynet give these people a platform to spread their lies? And that the problem we have with the concept that

..........climbing aboard the 'chosen people" bandwagon. This really is becoming rather pathetic.

it's time all jews woke up and realized where we stand in the world. The level of hatred towards us is growing by the day. the only place for jews is israel. .

utter and complete rubbish a chillel hashem

Der Stürmer and the BBC in one sentence. He doesn't need to like the BBC, but putting them on one level with this Nazi propaganda paper is completely out of touch. That's trivializing the holocaust and in some countries illegal.

chosen people is a phrase concieved by jews since it is impossible to be chosen by god when you have crud like olmert, dumbbells like livni, lapdogs like ramon who is as stupid as they come, and beilin and ben ami, 2 weaklings if there ever were 2. Yes non jews might be jealous and muse-who the hell are you to think you are chosen?? But also in the mix is the public display of religious jews, the seemingly weak physical image of the haredi who must I had anything to do with force them all including the rabbis to do daily martial arts training with a rest on weekends. and public dress of the haredi should be restricted to the home and synagogue as it presents too easy a public target. No jews are a good people with an excellent culture and religion. However they are not chosen by god and if god in fact did choose them, he made a mistake. let him choose the moslems as his people so that they would be more moral than anyone else as barak says, and al quaeda and iranian terrorism would be a crime against god. How jews brag about chosen is beyoond me. It has been an albatross around the neck of jews. In common sense terms, looking around the people you know, can you honestly say that jews are any better than christians, hindus and moslems? No you cannot and the phrase is rubbish.

While the Jewish premise refers to being chosen as an example only ['Be a light unto the nations'], this is hardly the case with the Islamic infidel chosen premise [Its a blessing to kill the infidel] and the Christian one of exclusive keys for salvation ['All who do not accept JC are doomed]. The Jewish one is varied from both of those and will prevail them.In Judaism, only the soul that sins shall pay - regardless of their beliefs and status.

We are the Chosen People, but just what does that mean, "The Chosen People"? Chosen for what? We were chosen to accept the Torah, the law of G-d and to share this with the world. That is it, that is the meaning. If this is the source of Anti Semitism, that is pure craziness. We Jews (most Jews) may be intelligent, just, and good by nature, but that does not make us better. Others have the free will to behave as we strive to. The understanding that many people have of the Jewish Nation being the Chosen People is wrong and misunderstood.

The more of them, the more successful the religion is, so we think, and it makes sense. Like the Muslims who in huge numbers carved out Pakistan and Bangladesh out of India, for instance. Like Christians who are the most numerous in the world today. Like Hindus who grow in numbers every day. We are also successful as Secular because 20-25% of the people are agnostic or atheists in the world, and also because so many countries separate State and religion today officially. All the others may think they have been "chosen" in some way. "Talk is cheap" is the saying.

"I have a number of secular jewish friends (reform)"

I agree with #45 - the meaning of the "chosen people" concept is that the Jews were chosen by the Lord to receive the Torah. This does not mean or imply any superiority of the Jewish people. Any non-Jew can choose to convert to Judaism, hence the term has no racial connotations. This has, of course, never bothered Jew haters when they distort the meaning of this purely religious expression.

Nutty Rabbi with nutty opinions. Why does Ynet give these crackpot lunes a forum?

by printing articles written by lunatic Rabbis... TATA

The statements of this so called "Rav" are totally RACIST, as he is sustaining the wrong concept of a "Superior Race"- -Please, Jewish people, remember that it is the same paradigm of the evil Nazis!. The imprudent speech of this individual will surely cause an increasing of the Anti-Semitism against us, Jews that are living in the Galuth, and also it will cause damage to the image of the State of Israel in the world. Also the labeling of the Non-Jewish people as "Gentiles" is not polite at all. In conclusion, IMHO, the advice to this "Rabbi", better to SHUT HIS MOUTH UP. AM ISRAEL CHAI

(arrogant ignorance) Jews don't have a clue what gentiles think. Period! You just make up stuff by projecting what you wish to believe. Consequently, many of you have an enormously distorted -- and counter-productive -- notion. If you had any intelligence you'd ask those who were raised in that environment what gentiles think and why instead of projecting your own distorted canards on them. Essentially, you rob gentiles of their innate right to speak for themselves. You presume to speak for them -- and falsely libel many of them. You do the same to your own. Good reasons not to respect you.

Hilarious!! Who writes these comedy scripts??? An Oscar beckons.

little they cleave to the moral & ethical precepts given by H-Shem in the torah which christian & moooslums claim to uphold. I am disgusted by moooslums especially & christians who show us their hate & blame us erroneously for our justifiable defensive action so that we can save our lives. They twist the truth. They are antisemites.

Maybe God didn't want robots. In any case Muslims are not more moral than Jews: there is no morality if not based on ethicality. Anyone can imprison a woman or a people and boast how moral they are. Jews are ethical people who accept majestic laws of equality and liberty, regardless of their beliefs.

This rabbi got it all wrong. Jews are Chosen, because we did the choosing, not the other way around. G-d offered his laws to many peoples, but only the Jews chose to accept them without any hesitation. Jews chose the One G-d, the other nations did not. Antisemitism came later, but not out of jealosy. Since we chose G-d's laws, we are a constant reminder to the other nations' their moral failings of not chosing his laws.

of touch as one might think. You may argue different intensity or different language used, but it is still more of the same. Bottom line, I am not as optimistic as you are.

Please, don't dump us all into the same pile. Some of us love you, the Jewish People, because you are our Messiah's "kin" in other words you are family!

And how it turned into a Jew hate protest? A ton of my non-Jewish childhood friends even jumped on that bandwagon. Indeed many non-Jews are jealous of Jews: there is no two ways about it. We revere education and hard work and manage to succeed under veiled anti-semitism. To us it's clear: to you perhaps it's not. It's sad, pathetic and foolish that the no. Jews don't look a the Jews an an example but choose not to continue their education throughout life and instead settle into union Jobs, a set salary and retirement at 60. Jews don't believe in retirement. We keep being of value throughout our entire lives and will work well into our 90's. Sad that the world is guided by societal templates rather than their potential.