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Israel long ago vacated moral high ground it occupied since the Holocaust.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...bill-1.6291048
The Knesset passed early Thursday a controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people and asserts that "the realization of the right to national self-determination in Israel is unique to the Jewish people," with 62 lawmakers voting in favor of the legislation and 55 opposing it.
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The nation-state law also includes clauses stating that a "united Jerusalem" is the capital of Israel and that Hebrew is the country's official language. Another says that "the state sees the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation."
In a clause that set Arab lawmakers off, the bill explicitly states that "the right to exercises national determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people."
part of the law [is] aimed at promoting the "establishment and consolidation" of Jewish settlements
Israel long ago vacated moral high ground it occupied since the Holocaust.
The beginning of the apocolypse
Choking on another Krispy Cream I see
I don't mean Israel. My refrigerator broke.Choking on another Krispy Cream I see
^This guy mocking spelling errorsChoking on another Krispy Cream I see
The Jews are ed and un able. No wonder the towel heads want to genocide them.
Apparently Arab Israeli lawmaker tried to pass a bill in Knesset that said
“All Israeli citizens no matter their race, color or religion are equal”
The Knesset speaker told him to off
Notwithstanding the law under discussion that basically defines Israel as a Jewish ethno-state and legally relegates non-Jews to second-class status, Israel is not "the Jews."
Consider that 21% of Israeli citizens are Arab and non-Jewish. That number is increasing. Calling Israel "the Jews" erases Palestinians.
43% of world Jewry resides in Israel. That means 57% live elsewhere. It's not accurate to conflate Israel and world Jewry.
Calling Israel "the Jews" is anti-semitic; it also amounts to anti-Arab racism, insofar as it ignores their status as Israeli citizens. Please cut it out.
Last edited by Winehole23; 07-20-2018 at 03:29 AM.
more topically, Israel going the way of Zimbabwe and South Africa marks the failure of Zionism. had Zionism been successful, no such law would be needed.
minority rule in Israel is likely to be as successful in the long run as it was in South Africa.
in the short to medium term it bodes very ill for non-Jewish minorities in Israel. if democracy isn't dead in Israel, it soon will be.
Bottom line:
Israel right does not want any person of Arab ethnicity as citizens. Citizens have rights and most importantly, a vote.
Hamas and Hezbollah have accomplished exactly what they set out to do, keep the hard core right in power so they can stay relevant and funded. Enemies that both want Israel special. Especially non democratic. Isolate them.
I just heard on radio over 1/2 Israeli population is already non-Jew
This is basically South africa all over again
US (trump or no trump) supports this apartheid state and is mute on the subject. Now we see which state reallycontrols US (its not russia)
Sickest thing is US legislators including many democrats are making it illegal to protest or boycott against this apartheid state. Disgusting
Props to Ireland
As Israel Approves 'Apartheid' Law, Trump Spends $21M on US Embassy Move to Jerusalem
Donald Trump's embassy move was meant to reaffirm his country's support to the deal that Jerusalem is Israel's capital despite the Palestinian claim to its eastern part.
U.S. President Donald Trump spent over US$21 million, which is
over 100 times of what he said it would cost,
on adding features to the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem,
"They put an order in front of my desk last week for a billion dollars. I said, ‘A billion? What’s that for?’"
"We’re actually doing it for about $250,000," the president said.
the 70th anniversary of the country's independence, one day ahead of Nakba -
which resulted in the forced displacement of nearly 700,000 people from their homes after the state of Israel was established in 1948.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/ne...0719-0006.html
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-20-2018 at 07:53 AM.
Israel's 'Jewish state' law is the latest assault on its Arab citizens
Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has
claimed to be both a Jewish state and a democratic state.
But are those two aspirations achievable, or are they mutually exclusive?
It is a fundamental tension that has only intensified as the Palestinian Arab population in Israel — Christian and Muslim — has grown. Today
more than 20% of the country is Palestinian.
a controversial law Israel passed Thursday that defines the country as the “nation-state” of the Jewish people,
grants advantages to Jewish-only communities and
downgrades Arabic from an official language to one with a “special status.”
it is another troubling, unnecessarily provocative move by Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition,
sending a pointed message about Jewish primacy and
the increasing disregard for Palestinians and their rights.
The new law
omits the promises of democracy and equality
that are included in Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
Critics fear it will entrench privilege for Jews while legitimizing discrimination against Arabs.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-israel-arabs-20180720-story.html#
Ain't Religion just ing wonderful?
It's right up there with man's lust to power and wealth as mankind's greatest virtues.
Israel shouldn't have have recognized Hamas in the 2006 elections, but perhaps just this sort of impasse was what it wanted all along.
It gets harder and harder to defend Israel from a moral standpoint. I personally see less reason to do so every year.
"minority rule in Israel"
Jews are a minority in Israel?
But it felt like only $250,000, and Mr. Trump plays by the rules of George Costanza (i.e., it's not a lie if you "believe" it). And Mr. Trump "feels" it, which is close enough.As Israel Approves 'Apartheid' Law, Trump Spends $21M on US Embassy Move to Jerusalem
Donald Trump's embassy move was meant to reaffirm his country's support to the deal that Jerusalem is Israel's capital despite the Palestinian claim to its eastern part.
U.S. President Donald Trump spent over US$21 million, which is
over 100 times of what he said it would cost,
on adding features to the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem,
"They put an order in front of my desk last week for a billion dollars. I said, ‘A billion? What’s that for?’"
"We’re actually doing it for about $250,000," the president said.
the 70th anniversary of the country's independence, one day ahead of Nakba -
which resulted in the forced displacement of nearly 700,000 people from their homes after the state of Israel was established in 1948.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/ne...0719-0006.html
they will be
Haaretz lead editorial yesterday:
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...ster-1.6319599
Druze Israeli soldiers are quitting the army due to the new law
Hater, I thought you loved Trump? Why are you going after his second or third favorite country?
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