MaNiElla
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Re: Israel & Palestine
1st of all, the isreali jews do discriminate against the palestinians living in israel. Even though those israeli arabs have the right to vote, they still suffer from indirect disenfranchisement. Also, if they speak out against the government's unfair and unjust practices towards them, they are quickly labelled as traitors.
Secondly, anyone here has the right to quote from any source that agrees with their point of view, as long as it highlights and proves their points.
nathan71088 said:It raises valid questions that would (understandably) be ignored by pro-Israelis spouting the usual "Arabs are treated better in Israel than they are in their own countries".
Well considering that an 'arab', as you say, is treated as any other citizen getting the same rights including that of voting, considering there is an arabic political party that makes up one of the 12 in the current coalition, these Israeli citizens SHOULD feel no different treatment from their home countries or any different from you or me. A citizen is accepted in their own country anywhere in the world.
Really its futile that we argue this as neither of us have asked any arab Israeli's their actual opinion and even if we did ask a few you could not ask all of them so the argument is really just a political jibe against Israel for your part.
The reason why I posted two articles was to have two takes on the matter. CounterPunch.org is an obviously subjective source of info. It mentions that there was a peaceful protest as a result of Samir's death, while the Haaretz reports that damage was caused by the protest. The CP.org article is more recent, and informs us on the court's sentence (pretty important, I should think?)
Will you condemn every newspaper that does not deliver what you believe to be important. If so you should start your own newspaper to express your own opinion. The newspaper does not refelct the government or the people but rather the editors opinion. You cannot condemn Israel's actions because you disagree with an Israeli newspaper. Israeli government and it's media are separate, I know Israel has its evil zionist fingers around every other media, as I keep getting told, including that of the USA, but not in this case here...
1st of all, the isreali jews do discriminate against the palestinians living in israel. Even though those israeli arabs have the right to vote, they still suffer from indirect disenfranchisement. Also, if they speak out against the government's unfair and unjust practices towards them, they are quickly labelled as traitors.
Secondly, anyone here has the right to quote from any source that agrees with their point of view, as long as it highlights and proves their points.