Comment by simonh
2 years ago
The legal code and constitution also guarantees equal rights under the law. Can you cite an example of an Israeli Arab being denied any legal right due to that law?
Don’t get me wrong, I wish that law didn’t exist. It’s a mistake, but it’s mostly posturing by the Jewish nationalist faction.
The nakba was an appalling catastrophe. It shouldn’t have happened. But then the Arab invasion with the explicit aim of killing and expelling the Jews shouldn’t have happened either. Nor should the expulsion of 800,000 Jews from Arab countries. They were all terrible disasters. The world would be a better place if they hadn’t happened, but they did. Now we live in the world of today.
Are the Arab countries going to let the descendants of their Jewish populations back, and return the property and land confiscated from them? Are they going to grant them citizenship and let them serve in the police, army and judiciary with full democratic rights?
Are Jewish citizens of Israel routinely the subject of indefinite administrative detentions?
A codified law is "mostly posturing"?
I’ll ask again, can you cite any example of an Israeli Arab being denied any legal right under that law?
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-knesset-pa....
Posted under a throwaway because I am legitimately afraid for my employment for touching this issue.
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> Can you cite an example of an Israeli Arab being denied any legal right due to that law?
Here you go, 30 seconds on Google: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/middleeast/israel-arab-citize...
Will you stop spreading misinformation now? Or will you start splitting hairs, "Oh it's not due to the law, probably a coincidence haha"?
This guy is lying SOO MUCH man. It's not even funny. Saying things like Jews escaped with their lives from Arab states and how Arab leaders wanted to expel/kill all Jews just because. He conveniently forgot to mention the series of events that lead to the wars between Israel and Arab nations. It's so funny that he's making it an Arabs vs Jews thing when...Jews actually thrived under Muslim/Arab rule. Jewish scholars like dean phillip bell say that Jews time under Islamic rule and how much they prospered was comparable to that of the golden age of Islam. Meaning because they were protected by the Muslims for such a long period from 638 AD - 1100 then 1300 - 1917 (over 1300 years). they were able to be prosperous. What an absolute joke and liar that guy is.
>” how Arab leaders wanted to expel/kill all Jews”
I quoted the Arab leader that orchestrated the assault in 1948 on that point. I can give more if you like. Here’s the then Prime Minister of Iraq Nuri al-Said: "We will crush the state with our guns and destroy any place in which the Jews seek shelter."
It’s true Jews and Arabs lived side by side for over a thousand years. Those Jewish populations in Arab regions were there in peace for a long time. It’s also true they were forcibly expelled after the Turks and Europeans left. That happened throughout the Arab world.
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Crime against Arab Israelis is appalling. Nothing to do with the nation state law (which to be clear is a stupid mistake), as far as I can tell it’s not even mentioned in the article.
>> Or will you start splitting hairs, "Oh it's not due to the law, probably a coincidence haha".
> Nothing to do with the nation state law (which to be clear is a stupid mistake), as far as I can tell it’s not even mentioned in the article.
LOL.
A silly mistake, surely, to codify apartheid into law, teehee. And then one thing leads to another, and people somehow end up being discriminated. Completely unrelated, though! Could happen to any of us if we’re not careful!
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