Benjamin Netanyahu stands in front of a map of Israel where the West Bank has been renamed "New Israel." Bibi: I'm still in favor of a two-state solution!
Israel legally has 1.7 million Arab citizens with the right to run for office and to vote. Most Arabs polled choose to live under Israeli laws, and fear losing that privilege by the terror acts carried out by the rabid Arab terrorists who want ALL the Land without a single Jew alive there, under the horrible sharia law, that treats girls and women like cattle, owned and without rights.-the official who controls election voting is an Arab Christian Judge.-Visit Israel and see for yourselves that Arabs and Jews can and do live peacefully together in neighborhoods. Tourism is protected and safe for you to visit any time of the year.
p.s. Arabs rejected “2 States” in 1947-48 and still refuse to acknowledge Israel is a nation——all Arab maps omit Israel.Any fake “deal” forced on Israel by the US/West would install a Terrorist Iran-type “State” with power to use all kinds of weapons including nuclear against Israel, then against the USA and Europe and all Moslems who do not subscribe to the “Palestinian State” views. And all slaughters done to please what the Koran says Allah wants….dead “enemies”…
“….to give that miserable piece of real estate to the Jews.”
Golda Mair (I’m sure I spelled it wrong) said it best when she noted that it was hard to tell that the Jews were the Chosen People when they got the only land in the Middle East that didn’t have any oil.
I think this is correct history, that the US did not give “aid” that is mostly credit to buy American military equipment, until well after Israel became an independent nation in May 1948.-The desolate and barren wasteland was due to the Arab Ottoman Empire’s neglect for so long; the 1890s began the Zionist settlers moving in and they were not rich in money but were rich in hard work and creative ideas that turned a desert into a Rose Garden. Before they received foreign aid.-Today Israel is the most progressive Mideast nation and many inventions and improved products come from Israel. Medical advances come from Israel to the Western world, as well as agricultural improvements such as irrigation, reusing water to grow profitable produce, and they export lush fruits, vegetables and flowers. -Can’t you “haters” give credit where credit is due?
Like Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu, I am South African, so we both know what was apartheid: from diametrically opposite perspectives. I visited Israel in the late ‘90s. I personally saw how Palestinians were mistreated or treated differently.While Israel may not have a legislated apartheid like South Africa had in force, it has a defacto apartheid on the ground. Especially within the occupied terrotories. You apparently also dismiss the criticism of an Israeli former director of Mossad and his comparison with apartheid with a simple look up of a dictionary’s definition.
Israel and the apartheid analogy
Discriminatory Laws in the State of Israel
Apartheid and Occupation
Citizenship law makes Israel an apartheid state
“We do not have to identify the characteristics of South African apartheid in the civil rights discrimination in Israel in order to call Israel an apartheid state. It is best that we not try to evade the truth: The Citizenship Law’s existence turns Israel into an apartheid state.”
Your Jim Crow laws may have been struck from your law books with your Civil Rights movement but are blacks within the US treated equally?…50 years on…
“The parts of Israel that you see the discrepancy in Israel is the parts where arabs refuse to join Israel.”
So you knew where I was in Israel & the West Bank? (I wasn’t in Gaza fyi)
" How many blacks were elected to office during Apartheid?"
Tell me, in a country where a minority of 20% held onto power through violence and force, how long do you think a system like apartheid would last if a one-man one-vote system was actually accepted? Well, we know the answer to that: it didn’t last at all once one-man one-vote was instituited.A Tri-cameral parliament was set up in ‘82, to include the Indian community (SA speak for Asians from the Indian sub-continent) and Coloureds (SA speak for mixed-race) as a sop for “equal” rights and still blacks were excluded in a one-man-one-vote system.… Because the whites in power KNEW the majority would vote them out. Giving the Indian and Coloured communities the franchise was easy because they posed NO POLITICAL THREAT to white rule.Giving non-Jewish Israelis within Israel the franchise poses NO POLITICAL THREAT to Jewish ruleI’m curious: non-Jewish Israelis in Israel number a mere 25% whereas in apartheid SA whites numbered 20%. There couldn’t be apartheid with a one-man one-vote system. However, if one combines all Palestinians in the Greater Palestine region (i.e. Israel, West Bank & Gaza) they’ll soon be the majority.Can you see the Occupied Territories obtaining equal representation in the Israeli Knesset?Yeah, nor do I. I used to be part of the “elite” in SA, I know what was being said in the ’80s and I hear it said aloud by too many Israelis.
You stated: “Yes, blacks are treated equally and in many cases better than whites”
Er, no. No, they are not and incidents like in Ferguson tell me they are not. If you think they are, you should try walking a mile in an African-American’s shoes first.
You’re in serious denial and you’re an apologist for injustice.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
He’s basically already there on the West Bank. He’s only “out” of Gaza so it can be a free-fire zone.
OmqR-IV.0 about 9 years ago
“Greater Israel”
OmqR-IV.0 about 9 years ago
" Apartheid is not the right word. Moronic of you to repeat it"
‘Ex Israeli Spy Director says Netanyahu Creating Apartheid State’
‘Desmond Tutu: U.S. Christians must recognize Israel as apartheid state’
kline0800 about 9 years ago
Israel legally has 1.7 million Arab citizens with the right to run for office and to vote. Most Arabs polled choose to live under Israeli laws, and fear losing that privilege by the terror acts carried out by the rabid Arab terrorists who want ALL the Land without a single Jew alive there, under the horrible sharia law, that treats girls and women like cattle, owned and without rights.-the official who controls election voting is an Arab Christian Judge.-Visit Israel and see for yourselves that Arabs and Jews can and do live peacefully together in neighborhoods. Tourism is protected and safe for you to visit any time of the year.
kline0800 about 9 years ago
p.s. Arabs rejected “2 States” in 1947-48 and still refuse to acknowledge Israel is a nation——all Arab maps omit Israel.Any fake “deal” forced on Israel by the US/West would install a Terrorist Iran-type “State” with power to use all kinds of weapons including nuclear against Israel, then against the USA and Europe and all Moslems who do not subscribe to the “Palestinian State” views. And all slaughters done to please what the Koran says Allah wants….dead “enemies”…
I Play One On TV about 9 years ago
“….to give that miserable piece of real estate to the Jews.”
Golda Mair (I’m sure I spelled it wrong) said it best when she noted that it was hard to tell that the Jews were the Chosen People when they got the only land in the Middle East that didn’t have any oil.
kline0800 about 9 years ago
I think this is correct history, that the US did not give “aid” that is mostly credit to buy American military equipment, until well after Israel became an independent nation in May 1948.-The desolate and barren wasteland was due to the Arab Ottoman Empire’s neglect for so long; the 1890s began the Zionist settlers moving in and they were not rich in money but were rich in hard work and creative ideas that turned a desert into a Rose Garden. Before they received foreign aid.-Today Israel is the most progressive Mideast nation and many inventions and improved products come from Israel. Medical advances come from Israel to the Western world, as well as agricultural improvements such as irrigation, reusing water to grow profitable produce, and they export lush fruits, vegetables and flowers. -Can’t you “haters” give credit where credit is due?
OmqR-IV.0 about 9 years ago
Like Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu, I am South African, so we both know what was apartheid: from diametrically opposite perspectives. I visited Israel in the late ‘90s. I personally saw how Palestinians were mistreated or treated differently.While Israel may not have a legislated apartheid like South Africa had in force, it has a defacto apartheid on the ground. Especially within the occupied terrotories. You apparently also dismiss the criticism of an Israeli former director of Mossad and his comparison with apartheid with a simple look up of a dictionary’s definition.
Israel and the apartheid analogy
Discriminatory Laws in the State of Israel
Apartheid and Occupation
Citizenship law makes Israel an apartheid state
“We do not have to identify the characteristics of South African apartheid in the civil rights discrimination in Israel in order to call Israel an apartheid state. It is best that we not try to evade the truth: The Citizenship Law’s existence turns Israel into an apartheid state.”
Your Jim Crow laws may have been struck from your law books with your Civil Rights movement but are blacks within the US treated equally?…50 years on…
OmqR-IV.0 about 9 years ago
“The parts of Israel that you see the discrepancy in Israel is the parts where arabs refuse to join Israel.”
So you knew where I was in Israel & the West Bank? (I wasn’t in Gaza fyi)
" How many blacks were elected to office during Apartheid?"
Tell me, in a country where a minority of 20% held onto power through violence and force, how long do you think a system like apartheid would last if a one-man one-vote system was actually accepted? Well, we know the answer to that: it didn’t last at all once one-man one-vote was instituited.A Tri-cameral parliament was set up in ‘82, to include the Indian community (SA speak for Asians from the Indian sub-continent) and Coloureds (SA speak for mixed-race) as a sop for “equal” rights and still blacks were excluded in a one-man-one-vote system.… Because the whites in power KNEW the majority would vote them out. Giving the Indian and Coloured communities the franchise was easy because they posed NO POLITICAL THREAT to white rule.Giving non-Jewish Israelis within Israel the franchise poses NO POLITICAL THREAT to Jewish ruleI’m curious: non-Jewish Israelis in Israel number a mere 25% whereas in apartheid SA whites numbered 20%. There couldn’t be apartheid with a one-man one-vote system. However, if one combines all Palestinians in the Greater Palestine region (i.e. Israel, West Bank & Gaza) they’ll soon be the majority.Can you see the Occupied Territories obtaining equal representation in the Israeli Knesset?Yeah, nor do I. I used to be part of the “elite” in SA, I know what was being said in the ’80s and I hear it said aloud by too many Israelis.
You stated: “Yes, blacks are treated equally and in many cases better than whites”
Er, no. No, they are not and incidents like in Ferguson tell me they are not. If you think they are, you should try walking a mile in an African-American’s shoes first.
You’re in serious denial and you’re an apologist for injustice.