And no one bothers to mention what those attacks are in response to. The random shelling of a playground for instance…then again at the first responders after you’ve blown their children into a million pieces. Or snatching a Palestinian teenager out of a car at a check point and carving a Star of David into his arm with a shard of glass. So, perhaps the selective outrage goes both ways.
No, actually that’s almost exactly what they did.
None of what you accuse Israelis of is part of their policy. Shelling Israeli civilians is exactly part of the policies of Hezbollah and Hamas. Does the Israeli constitution call for killing all the Arabs? No, it doesn’t. Does the Hamas Charter call for killing all the Jews? Sure does.
First of all, you omitted a rather important detail. France had been in possession of Alsace since the 17th century until it was annexed by Germany in the 19th century. So, in your example, Germany would be analogous with Israel. France didn’t just march in with papers from the Ottoman Empire, build a wall around it, and claim it as their own either. It was ceded by Germany in the Treaty of Versailles and retaken after WWII. Why would the UN complain about a legal transfer of land agreed to by both parties?
Whether such actions are part of some documented policy is irrelevant; they do it and the Palestinians respond. Using white phosphorous supposedly wasn’t “policy” either but they ordered it to be used anyway. They either have no control over the IDF and IBP or they actively choose to throw this alleged “policy” of peaceful coexistence to the wind at every opportunity. It is incredibly naive to think that these rocket attacks are not a response to Israeli aggression. I wouldn’t expect anyone to smile and whistle a happy tune after watching their children get blown apart for the amusement of the IDF. Or their property and livelihoods destroyed by Israeli settlers with little-to-no recourse. Israel provokes the Palestinians and its so-called security forces terrorize them. A response should be expected.
Whether such actions are part of some documented policy is irrelevant; they do it and the Palestinians respond. Using white phosphorous supposedly wasn’t “policy” either but they ordered it to be used anyway. They either have no control over the IDF and IBP or they actively choose to throw this alleged “policy” of peaceful coexistence to the wind at every opportunity. It is incredibly naive to think that these rocket attacks are not a response to Israeli aggression. I wouldn’t expect anyone to smile and whistle a happy tune after watching their children get blown apart for the amusement of the IDF. Or their property and livelihoods destroyed by Israeli settlers with little-to-no recourse. Israel provokes the Palestinians.
Agreed to by both parties? Are you serious? The German representatives were presented with one document, not allowed to negotiate at all, and told that if they didn’t sign it, the war would begin again immediately. Had there truly been a negotiated settlement there probably would have been no WWII. Everybody knows that.
Ooookay. This is “apes and pigs” level stuff. I think we’ve seen enough to know what underlies it.
Oh please.
If a failure to reason and face the realities of what is happening over there gets people a gold star then I don’t want one. The incident mentioned was well reported on. The Palestinians stopped a group of terrorists from launching rockets half a mile away and their reward from Israel was to have tanks shell a playground and kill their children 30 minutes later. Don’t be surprised if they let the rockets fly next time.Do recall that when the Germans in WWI took over Alsace Lorraine they totally proscribed French. When Germany collapsed the people of Alsace-Lorraine asked the the French to restore order.
You are aware the Ashkenazim treat Arab Jews badly right?
source
source
No good. You can’t back away from it.Oh please.
These left-wing articles are supposed to impress?
Wasn’t the entire point of the creation of Israel to create a homeland for all Jews and thus treating some Jews as second class citizens is counter to that? (Well that and the British were sick of Zionist terrorists attacking their people and wanted to cut their losses.)
Sephardic Jews are not “second class citizens” in Israel. They have the same rights as Ashkenazi Jews have. Because some Sephardim come from primitive places and have primitive ways and often require significant state support, some of the more sophisticated Ashkenazi look down on them. Want to compare that with blacks in the U.S.? With recent immigrants? One is put to at least think about the Guatemalans who are not only sometimes looked down on by the “Anglos”, but by the Mexicans and Salvadorans as well.
My poison? Pick my poison? Your false choice, you mean?
Just to summarize a little, when you hear about something less-than-compassionate that the Israeli Jews are doing, you remember that nobody is perfect, and that the government of Arab nations are not innocent either.
It isn’t a matter of “the Arabs do it too”, though I do think a lot of people expect perfection of Israel while not expecting it of other countries, even of the U.S. itself.
Where’s the condemnation without pointing fingers at someone else? It seems that there’s a mindset that Israel can do no wrong. Are you willing to unequivocally condemn this:
As I understand the article, Ethiopian immigrants, some of which were Jews and (other source) some of which were not, were reported as given shots believed to be the contraceptive Depo-Provera by health workers. Apparently Haaretz, then the Ministry of Health learned of it. The latter then instructed health workers not to give contraceptives to any Ethiopian women who didn’t understand what the contraceptives were doing and want them.
Just because Sephardim were coming from third world countries doesn’t mean they had primitive ways. Most Ashkenazim also needed extensive state support.
So then what is the West Bank? What about the 12% of the West Bank that is fenced off from the rest of it?