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Netanyahu stokes Israeli ``Who is a Jew'' debate
         
            JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A brief aside to a revered rabbi
Tuesday got Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into more
hot water in a heated debate over ``who is a Jew.''
            ``Leftists have forgotten what it is to be Jewish. They
think they will put our security in the hands of Arabs -- that
Arabs will look out for us,'' he told Rabbi Yitzhak Kadoori in
remarks picked up by an Israel Radio microphone over the noise
of music at the sage's birthday party.
            ``We will give them (the Arabs) part of the land and they
will look after us -- who ever heard of something like that,''
said the right-wing leader, who also celebrated his own
birthday, his 48th, Tuesday.
            Opposition politicians immediately condemned Netanyahu for
the remarks, which dominated Israeli news reports despite his
spokesman's insistence that the comments were taken out of
context.
            ``Netanyahu cannot preach to us what is Judaism and what is
security responsiblity -- especially when his 'accomplishments'
in fighting terror over the last 15 months are taken into
consideration,'' Ehud Barak, leader of the main opposition, and
left-leaning, Labor Party told reporters.
            ``Netanyahu has forgotten what it is to be a human being,''
said Yossi Sarid, leader of the left-wing Meretz party.
             Netanyahu is already embroiled in a controversy over
legislation that would enshrine in Israeli law Orthodox monopoly
on conversions to Judaism in the Jewish state.
            American Jews, most of whom belong to the more liberal
Reform and Conservative factions, oppose the law and want to
break the Orthodox hold over Jewish ritual in Israel.