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YN -> RE: Iran VS Israel (10/23/2012 4:33:19 PM)
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The current Israeli president and his platform is unpopular in his nation and there is an election coming the January. Perhaps some of the Israeli saber waving is electioneering rhetoric.
I'm sad to report that this may not be the case.
In shocking results of an opinion poll published yesterday, a majority of Israelis support the apartheid system Israel operates on the West bank, and oppose Palestinian rights:
"More than two-thirds of the 503 Jewish citizens questioned by the polling company Dialog said they would oppose voting rights for the 2.5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank if it was annexed to Israel.
And 42 per cent indicated they did not want to live in the same building as Arabs or have their children in the same class as Arab children, the poll found.
When specifically questioned on the thorny issue of whether there is apartheid in Israel, 58 per cent said there was – of those, 39 per cent said apartheid existed "in some respects" and 19 per cent said it existed "in many respects". Thirty-one per cent believed there was no apartheid.
The findings confirm what many Palestinians living in Israel say they experience – a system of entrenched unfairness in which everything from government jobs to education, health services and even garbage collection is affected.
"There is a very intricate, pervasive system of discrimination against Palestinians in Israel," said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation executive committee. "I blame the ongoing occupation, the lack of accountability and the extremely hostie policies and rhetoric of Netanyahu and his coalition."
http://www.smh.com.au/world/israelis-back-discrimination-against-arabs-poll-20121024-2844m.html#ixzz2AEcu0yV5
It seems Israelis prefer land theft, racism and apartheid to peace. " "Israelis themselves … are openly, shamelessly and guiltlessly defining themselves as nationalistic racists," commented Gideon Levy in Haaretz. It will interesting to see how America's Jewish community and other 'liberals' react - traditionally Jewish communities have supported liberal values and opposed racism.
The choice is now between opposing racism and apartheid on one hand, and supporting Israel on the other.
Perhaps.
We both have noted in this thread, the current platform of Netanyahu towards Iran has a ~70% disapproval rating among the Isrelite public, so braying it more loudly will not help him with the voters.
And the demonstrations have been on the issues caused by Netanyahu's domestic policies, there have been ones of anti-tax hikes, anti-austerity, ant-inflation, and cost of living, even disabled veterans publicly setting themselves in flames with gasoline to protest their plights intheir ranks, among other similar grounds, and Netanyahu is the king of the villians according to the reports.
Would you bet anything valuable on the results being entirely favorable to Netanyahu, and his Party, in the election that is underway?
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