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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer To me it seems that one side is utterly locked into the view that Israel is made up of 'upstanding citizens who are sort of like ourselves', whereas Palestine is full of 'barbarians, semihumans, animals, terrorists, madmen'. Or similar. It doesn't matter what the Israelis do to the Palestinians, or vice versa: the former are 'people of our sort', the latter are just not not 'people' in the same sense that *we* are. It's no surprise to find that racism is often at the core of pro-Zionist discourse. To support the Zionist cause, it is necessary to turn a blind eye to Israel's ethnic cleansing and apartheid (two of the worst most odious crimes in the catalogue of racist horrors), the 60 odd pieces of legislation in Israel that openly discriminate against non-Jews and the extraordinary levels of racism that permeate Israeli society from the Prime Minister down. Astonishingly, some of those Zionist apologists have the temerity to accuse Israel's critics of racism. Don't they realise that any one who glosses over or defends ethnic cleansing and apartheid automatically loses any moral right to accuse others of racism? The level of hypocrisy involved is stratospheric. Oh yes, ethnic cleansing. Why just recently Isreal was caught smuggling Zyklon B. http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/13950 http://www.shabak.gov.il/ENGLISH/ENTERRORDATA/REVIEWS/Pages/SmugglingWeapons.aspx http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28430298 Oh...wait. Jewish population in Isreal: 6,125,000 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/newpop.html Arab population Middle East: 390,000,000 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_countries_by_population Hum....seems that Jewish population is right around some other ethnic cleansing. Where was that and who was cleansed? http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1435 Again, when tweak says zionists, here's what she means. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zionist&defid=2024242 She's a racist. How does a person reconcile Israeli ethnic cleansing with the fact that Arabs in Israel have a higher standard of living than those in Arab countries? If the Israelis were trying to kill them off, because ethnic cleansing is just another way of saying genocide why would they allow them to live that well?
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