Comment by ignoramous
3 days ago
> Plenty Arabs ... enjoy equal rights to the Jews
Plenty? You kid? https://www.adalah.org/en/content/index/2052
Granted, a few masochists among Arabs may very well "enjoy" the predicament they find themselves in, sure.
First one:
> Since the beginning of the War on 7 October 2023, dozens of Israeli universities and colleges initiated disciplinary actions mainly and overwhelmingly against Palestinian students, both citizens of Israel and residents of East Jerusalem, based on their social media posts.
I started reading thinking oh this isn't good - oh that makes more sense. Here in the UK we also ban support for terrorist organisations.
> Plenty? You kid?
21% of the population of Israel counts as plenty in my opinion.
Imagine being from the UK and hating some ethnic group halfway around the world so much, that when I am here talking about my college friend who was prevented from higher education because of an ethnic conflict, you have to deflect to the worst possible examples of his ethnic group for what reason? To be a jerk?
Imagine actually living in Israel where I bought my meds yesterday from an Arab pharmacist and watched my kids play in the park the other day with Muslim (presumably Arab) children.
I really wish the world would stay out of an issue they know nothing about.
The very word "Palestinian" is _ridiculous_, there is no such nation, it's literally the Arabs who seek war and rejected every offer of peace from Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Look at the Jordanian flag next to the "Palestine" one. Google where Arafat was born. Look at the actual Hamas charter which says to kill every Jew no matter what.
Arabs and Muslims who do not want to annihilate Israel absolutely 100% do enjoy equal rights here. I live here. I see it first-hand nearly every day of my life. It's a democratic country. Arabs and Muslims are in the Knesset. Whether or not they should be in a Jewish homeland is a different discussion, fact is they are.
Odds are your "Palestinian" friend was offered the opportunity for Israeli citizenship and rejected it because he's been brainwashed by a downright stupid narrative of a national identity that never existed until the 1960's when all out war failed.
I buy my medicine from Arabs and chill in parks with Muslims, but then I have to run into a bomb shelter multiple times a week and cope with the 19 year old in my neighborhood who got killed fighting homicidal maniacal terrorists.
So, no, this isn't about hating an ethnic group. Palestinians are not an ethnic group. It's about hating antisemetism and the pattern that keeps happening throughout history where people choose to hate Jews so much they make up all kinds of nonsense to justify it.
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I don't hate them. they hate the Jews. I want them to live in peace and thrive. but it's not going to happen while they keep attacking Israel.
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