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Live Video 🌎 “The Empire Did Nothing Wrong”

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

you should abhor Israel aswell

I think that is going a bit far.

You can support Israel's right to exist but abhor the illegal settlements in the West Bank, the apartheid system, and what is going on in Gaza.

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u/MumenRiderZak Apr 27 '24

Israel as it functions now then if you need clarification

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

What does that even mean?

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u/jutzi46 Apr 27 '24

Do you see how it's functioning ATM?

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

What do you mean by "functioning"?

The lights are on, they have running water and sanitation, a strong and resilient economy, and a democratic political system.

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u/ceroproxy Apr 27 '24

> a democratic political system

LOL

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

You can LOL all you like but the fact is that it is a parliamentary democracy.

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

Is south Africa also a democracy then?

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

Yes, although not the same type.

Do you not have access to Google?

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

Ok great. End of discussion. You think apartheid south Africa is a democracy. That's all I need to know.

Or will you bend over backwards like a pretzel trying to explain how apartheid south Africa is actually a great democracy with no apartheid if you just squint and ignore everything that happens there

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

Are you living in the past?

South Africa ended apartheid in 1994. I remember celebrating it.

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

So you're ancient? Then you must know I mean when I say is SA a democracy. If you have more than two neurons to rub together you might just get what context mean.

Question still stands. Is APARTHEID south Africa. A democracy?

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

So you're ancient?

Older than the pyramids.

Then you must know I mean when I say is SA a democracy

Not one to make dangerous assumptions, I shall and did take your words at face value.

If you have more than two neurons to rub together you might just get what context mean.

I wouldn't recommend rubbing neurons together. It isn't good for them. Yes, I understand what context means. Shame you didn't provide any.

Is APARTHEID south Africa. A democracy?

APARTHEID South Africa no longer exists.

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

APARTHEID South Africa no longer exists.

Uhuh. But was it a democracy. History doesn't get erased if you don't like it. And south Africa still suffers from the effects of apartheid and will for a long long time. I'd appreciate it if you stop dodging a simple yes no question

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

But was it a democracy.

No.

See, if you use the right words (even if missing the punctuation), you may find it easier to get the answers you want.

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

Great. So apartheid doesn't go hand in hand with democracy. So why do you call Israel a democracy.

If you want to say the same bs of it's not technically Israel 🤓 because the illegal settlements aren't on Israeli soil by some definitions. When there are cars marked Palestinians and can't go everywhere and Israeli cars that can damn well drive into gods house and the idf would protect them. When there are roads a Palestinian can't walk on. They can't modify their homes (even in the so called Israel free zone). They can't vote and have to stick with the government Israel installed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

Or how the people in Israel still face significant discrimination and have second class citizenships. Etc...

Sounds very democratic to me. I mean how democratic can an ethnostate be?

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

You appear to be confusing Israel with the occupied territories.

Israel does not have any second class citizens and if you think it is an ethnostate, you may be having problems with the meaning of words again.

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

Let's start from the top then

You appear to be confusing Israel with the occupied territories.

  1. Under international law those territories are the responsibility of Israel.

  2. There's a section in the Israeli wiki page talking about this.

Many Arab citizens feel that the state, as well as society at large, not only actively limits them to second-class citizenship, but treats them as enemies, affecting their perception of the de jure versus de facto quality of their citizenship.[283] The joint document The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel, asserts: "Defining the Israeli State as a Jewish State and exploiting democracy in the service of its Jewishness excludes us, and creates tension between us and the nature and essence of the State." The document explains that by definition the "Jewish State" concept is based on ethnically preferential treatment towards Jews enshrined in immigration (the Law of Return) and land policy (the Jewish National Fund), and calls for the establishment of minority rights protections enforced by an independent anti-discrimination commission.

  1. Look up the israeli "nation state law". It outlines two kinds of citizens. The jews and everyone else. It was a pretty controversial law that passed anyway. Because that's how democracy works in an ethnostate.

There's a lot more. But I'm not ur mom. Do ur own research.

Also, here's a 300+ page document by the US. It mentions second class citizens. And a lot more human rights abuses

https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/israel-west-bank-and-gaza/

ethnostate

What does an ethnostate mean if not a state with restricted citizenship for certain ethnic and racial/religious groups? Does a place that you can be a citizen of based on ethnicity not an ethnostate. It's in the name bruh

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