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When Israel decides they want to recognize the rights of the Palestinians, as far as I'm concerned, they're welcome to come out and play.


Israel recognizes the rights of everybody, including of course Arabs (Arab citizens have fully equal rights and have political representation in Knesset). Israel does not recognize some of the demands of the PA (which has full autonomy and Israel does not owe them anything), but this has nothing to do with "rights". Get some information before throwing around accusations. That's always the case with you censorious types - you are stunningly ignorant and unwilling to learn about things you dismiss.



A pile of propagandist bullshit. Of course outlets like Vox and Guardian hate Israel and call it "racist" all the time. It's a bunch of lies, naturally. One is about official language (there's no "right" of anyone to have their language as official, it's a majority decision and majority in Israel speaks Hebrew - as BTW do all Arabic citizens, who learn it at school and can speak and read it just fine, so nobody is dicriminated about anything), another is whining about Jews living on a land as if it was some sort of crime, third one somehow makes low turnout in Arab neighborhoods into an evidence (without a shred of proof) of somehow discrimination. And it's not like it's 5% turnout - it's 49.1%. In 2015 it was 63%. so I imagine, depending on the cycle and attractiveness of the candidate, it moves between 50 and 65%. US turnout in 2016 was 60%. And I am supposed to take this as an evidence of "marginalization"? That's really scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Taking a usual electoral ebb and flow and presenting it as some kind of rampant racism. Of course, that's exactly what haters of Israel always are and will be doing. And this is demonstrating my case perfectly - this is what you are basing your claim that the whole state of Israel (including the very same Arabs that you pretend to care about of course) should be removed from internet on the basis of that Arab participation in recent election slightly dropped and they lost some votes. This shows very prominently how extensive your censorship ambitions are.


No, I think Israel needs to go sit at the kiddie table until they respect the rights of everyone who lives in their country. Did you miss the part about how no Arab party has ever been invited to join a ruling coalition, by any chance? Or the part about how Israeli law explicitly says that only Jews have the right to national self determination? These are facts, buddy. That you are unconvinced by what I've put right in front of your nose shows your bias.


Israel respects the rights of everyone - and much more than any other country in the Middle East, arguably more than many countries on the planet, where even holding fair elections is not a given and free speech does not exist. Most Middle East countries don't even pretend to be democracies - Israel actually is. And yet it is singled out for hate again and again.

> Israeli law explicitly says that only Jews have the right to national self determination

That's a lie, the law doesn't say that. The law says Jews have the right to national self-determination in their national state - Israel. It doesn't say it is the only case possible of national self-determination, neither could it - how would Israel possibly make law for all other nations in existence?! Just as Japanese have it in Japan, Koreans - in Korea, Swiss - in Switzerland, and Mongolians - in Mongolia, Jews have their national state in Israel. That doesn't mean a Jew in Mongolia or Korean in Switzerland do not have human rights - but it does mean Korea would have Korean and not Mongolian as state language, and that people of Japanese descent may have easier time to get Japanese citizenship than people of French descent. Presenting this completely common occurrence as something exceptional and a proof of "racism" - all the while many other countries around it literally run violent ethnic and religious cleansing, murder their own citizens for "blasphemy" or being gay or wearing wrong dress - with absolutely no complaint from the likes of you, and singling out Israel for exclusion for completely routine and accepted practices among many nations... I can't really decide if it's Antisemitism or plain idiocy, neither do I care. It just another proof that censorious hate for free speech, and willful ignorance often walk hand in hand. You are literally ok to destroy everybody who you think - scratch that, who your feed on twitter, prepared for you by your betters, told you - are "bad", without even trying to understand. And then you pretend you're some kind of enlightened being...


Until then, you think everyone in the country should be cut off from the internet?


Why not? Works for me.




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