Israel should be a state of all its citizens, not a state that belongs to one part of its population. Israel defines itself as a Jewish state. It's not just a question of definition or nature. It's...
Israel should be a state of all its citizens, not a state that belongs to one part of its population. Israel defines itself as a Jewish state. It's not just a question of definition or nature. It's a question of substance, structure, aims, goals, policies, laws. Israel is not only a Jewish state. It is the state of many people who are not its citizens, because Israel claims to be the state of all Jews all over the world, including people who are living happily, with full citizenship and rights, in other countries.
The Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt wrote, after the Zionist conference in the early 1940s, that Zionists were proposing to Palestinians either that they leave their country or to agree to second-degree citizenship. This was the way to build a Jewish state. The demographic obsession is one of the main obsessions of Zionism and the Israeli elite. This has recently become demographic phobia. This is the main reason Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza -- to get rid of Palestinians. All the Israeli political parties agree that in any solution, Israel should take as much land from the West Bank and Jerusalem area and that this land should include as few Arabs as possible. This is the rule that shapes Israel's attitude towards the Palestinians: demography and geography. Geography is good, Arabs are bad. We want the good, and exclude the bad.
The Israeli establishment look at us as a quantitative and a qualitative danger. In recent years, words like "demographic bomb", "demographic threat", "demographic danger", are used all the time. I think that when it comes to existential questions the Israeli leadership are in a problem. How to deal with Palestinians in Israel. It is very difficult to square the circle. You cannot be both an ethnic state and a democratic state. So in the Israeli academy there are those who can't live with this contradiction. People like Sammy Smooha at the University of Haifa. After analyzing Israeli democracy -- a fair analysis -- he came to the conclusion that Israel is an "ethnic democracy". Others (Oren Yiftachel) came to a conclusion that it's actually an "ethnocracy".
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This is incorrect, especially the part about the supposed "re-iteration of the theme of Israel's destruction" "in recent times." During the 2008 ceasefire - which 'Hamas was careful to uphold', according to Israel's Defense Ministry online report - Hamas extended the offer of negotiations on the pre-1967 borders and promised a 10-year ceasefire upon the settlement. The notion of 'promises of Israel's destruction' is spacious: Israel's destroying Palestine and, unlike Iran, has the bomb.
Well, it's nice to see a video made about the "other side" of this issue. American media is so one-sided, as it is on many subjects. This is rather interesting.
@barakooda: Perhaps it's because these people living in Israel, and calling themselves "Israelites", aren't really Israelites in the first place. Maybe they're impostures?
@pinkcanary: This is what our controlled media tells us, but is it true? To think American media isn't slanted would be erroneous. After witnessing who got the shorter end of the stick, I conclude that the Israelis have dealt the Palestinians a terrible blow of injustice. I don't believe Iran would harbor such resentment towards the Israelis had the Israelis been an honest peace broker in the region.
Ashkenazi Jews THIS IS YOU:I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan
Israel is an ethnocracy and not a democracy. A country that was built on the blood and pillaging of another nation. Over 800,000 Palestinians were evicted from their homes, over 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed by Israeli terrorists - who later became key figures in the state of Israel e.g. Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Moshe Dayan etc etc.
mingoi313 More than 1 000 000 Jews were expeled from Arab countries They property worth 80 Bilion USD(12 times more than pals) was stolen and confiscated 37000 square miles of their land (4time the sieze of israel) was robbed Thousands killed in pogroms in 40's. Today in Israel 84% of population is jewish withouth 300 000 arabs of east Jerusalem and 80% id Jewish with them.Most of Israeli Jews are middle eastern origin, ashkenazi jews are minority. 30% of Israeli arabs voted for zionist parties
In fact all the countries in the Middle east are exclusievely arab most of them exclusievely muslim. Palestinian authority basic law states that Palestine is a islamic country with shariah law as a base for juditiory. Saudi Arabia Islamic republic of Iran have laws which clearly states that not all citisens are equal.Israel in fact went to far in giving some rights to minority and Arabic is equaly offitial language in Israel (unpresidented rights)
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Fuck take your dirty hands off!