Comment by dotancohen

  > You are simply cherry picking.

Am I? Show me the rotten cherries, then. Accusations of cherry picking I could throw at the anti-Israeli crowd all day.

  > Israel, last time I checked, had 19 laws which give preferential treatment of Jewish citizens of Israel over non-Jewish citizens of Israel (not talking about Palestinians in W. Bank / Gaza).

If this is true, I would like more information.

  > Palestinians are not permitted to repair their homes or even their mosques. Go up on the roof and make a repair, and you risk having your home bulldozed by the Israelis.

Where did you get this from? I am genuinely interested. Of all the accusations I've seen directed at the Jewish state, this one is new to me.

  > I once hitch hiked on a Jewish only road in Israel. Jewish only really means not Palestinian.

What road was that? This is a commonly-disbunked slander.

  > What exists in the W. Bank and Gaza, is much worse than apartheid. Israel has turned Gaza into an open-air prison-- a concentration camp, if you will.

Actually, that was Egypt in 1949-1956 that turned Gaza into the overcrowded, unable-to-sustain-itself mess that it is today. Israel administered the area for some decades, but the UN was already condemning the overcrowded conditions in Gaza since 1955.

  >  Israel controls all water, food, fuel, electricity, and people entering and exiting from Gaza[1].

You mean that Israel _provides_ the water and electricity flowing into Gaza. You phrase it poorly.

  > And, their carpet bombing of the civilian captives has turned this concentration camp into a death camp.

I think that you do not know what carpet bombing is, or you do not know the bombing strategies of the IDF. Well, I don't know the bombing strategies of the IDF either, but despite the terrifying destruction in some parts of Gaza, the Gaza strip is not being subject to carpet bombing as a whole.