I always thought it was a diverse forward-thinking democratic society with many citizen minorities such as Druze and guaranteed civilian rights under the Israeli Common Law system.
it's that and a Jewish state. State it's like how Italy is an Italian state for Italian people, but you don't have to be Italian to live there. or how? Russia is a Russian country for the Russian people, but you don't have to be Russian to live there. or like how Poland is a country for Polish people that puts polish traditions and actions first, but you don't have to be polish to live there. remember Israel is more like a European country and it is America. in fact, I'd go on a limb to say Israel acts more like a middle European country (Poland Czech Republic, Slovakia those countries) than it is a western country. Identity is very important and the laws of the land reflect that, but it is also a Democratic country. we have to stop comparing Israel to France and start comparing Israel to the Czech Republic or Poland. this is because the country's original founders were from those areas.
A Polish person will say that Poland is a Democratic Republic, and anyone who wants to live there can but to be a citizen means to acknowledge and support the identity in the rules of being polish. a black person can move to Poland. however, to be a citizen they need to learn polish. they need to live there for a number of years and need to pass a test. that doesn't make the country as less democratic just means they're very particular on who they let in.
this double standard is really annoying when it comes to Israel. especially when the country is complaining about it or fucking shitholes like Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and South Africa.
there is nothing wrong with the making rules and what makes a citizen. it is each country's right to define whatever a citizen is. however, what isn't right is a country stripping citizenship from one of its citizens (and leaving them stateless). when the Israeli's won 1948, they said that anybody within their lands wanted to be in Israeli can stay and they granted them citizenship. those outside the borders, were not citizens. that is completely normal and fine. remember when the Jordan Kingdom gave up control of the West Bank and the Egyptians gave up control of the Gaza strip, they effectively made the Palestinians living there citizen-less people. They never granted them Jordanian or Egyptian citizenship. but we never talk about that.
We have seen this before. It happened in 2012 with Pillar of Defense. Again in 2014 with Protective Edge. 2021, and now 2023. Here is how it will go:
- Hamas attacks Israel,
- Israel responds,
- People who didn’t know what Gaza was the day before, typically liberals, take to the current most popular social media site and the streets to decry muh genocide
- War drags on and months pass by
- Novelty wears off, attention spans fall short, and slacktivism for Palestine sharply declines.
Ftfy. A more appropriate spelling if you saw the videos from Gaza today
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The difference though is that with tiktok and everything, the threat of jihadist violence increases rapidly. the things are compounding, my fear that I live with is that some fucking liberal is going to get it in their head that the best way to fight against Zionism is to support some Muslim in shooting up a synagogue or a Jewish religious school or just any place where Jews are.
when October 7th happened I had family abroad traveling and I was very concerned. Because often these large-scale attacks come with them, terror attacks in foreign countries.
liberals don't understand that they're just repeating deeply anti-semitic and offensive things and I think for the first time ever Jews have realized this and they're cutting off dei from the head. they don't want anything associated with it because the idea was that we would support the minorities and when something happened they would support us back like they did in the past (mlk was a big zionist).
however, the new crop of "enlightened liberals" are just anti-semitic buffoons. that's why I hang out here, I'd rather some retard call me a kike to my face. than some fucking redditor, with a trans emoji talk about muh genocide and how they have jewish friends.
I do feel like that now that Trump has won and the general pendulum is swinging back. a lot of people do not have patience for this nonsense, especially seeing how young people are happily eating up and supporting crimes against humanity.
Just remember while people were screaming about a genocide and a famine in Gaza (which never happened. look at the photos. no one's starving and actually the population of Gaza increased during the war) there has been a massive famine in Yemen due mostly to the houthis, a massive civil War and famine in Sudan which the US state department has just brought up that the Sudanese have started using chemical weapons against their own civilians. also remember when people were talking before about how terrible Saudi Arabia was being in Yemen. remember this: the legally elected president of Yemen legally asked for and invited the Saudi Arabian military to assist them in fighting the houthi rebels and help reestablish sovereignty within Yemen. Saudi Arabia legally agreed and their military action (which we can very much criticize how it was played out. the Saudis are not very good) was 100% legal. The houthis are not a recognized government, they are not even a majority of the country, what they are is a small tribal family which comes from the northern Yemen and is taken over the capital, yet we took them off the terrorist list?????????
regardless of Israel, these fuckers are disrupting international shipping. that alone should lead a United States Marine expeditionary unit to fuck shit up in Yemen.
what changed is the media, they got lazy. they spent all their time screaming about Trump over bullshit, they didn't focus on his policy problems. they didn't focus on anything. they just talked about orange man bad and anything that any brown person said at face value. until the media wises up, this will only get worse and the result of this will be dead white people and dead Jews.