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Quotes a guy as an example of a sweeping generalization who is massively controversial in his own country, is facing domestic charges and has tens of thousands of citizens protesting against him regularly.

Your choice of quotes is indeed not very interesting, but rather shows how little you know about Israel.

You should visit some time it's a beautiful and diverse country.

I'm sure you'll learn a lot.



The democratically elected president who has been leading the country for years is now "a guy", got it.

All these discussions are generally about the actions of the Israeli government anyway, which he represents.


Do you know how many parliamentary elections have been held in Israel in the past 5 years?

Anyways, you clearly seem not to be interested in either the complexity of reality or the actions that preceded those of the Israeli government.

The political division in the US I think isn’t even as high as the one in Israel.

While we’re on the topic of actions, kindly tell me how much “genocide” was going on in Gaza prior to October 7th.

I’d challenge you to look at population growth in Gaza over the past 2 decades to make a point.

How many protests did the US see over the past two decades for millions of civilians killed by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan?


While you’re at it visit the OPT too! It will show you exactly how invested Israel is on diversity.


Happily will do so!

I’ll try to answer my following research questions:

If Palestinians want a state so badly, why didn’t they accept one in 1948?

In the following decades, when Gaza was Egyptian, the West Bank was Jordanian and the Golan heights Syrian, why didn’t their Arab brothers give them their own state?

Where were the Palestinians in ‘67 when these Arab leaders decided to attack Israel, got a bloody nose and created the mess we’re in today?

Where were the Palestinians in the 90s, when Arafat could have given them their own state with East Jerusalem as their capital?

Where were the demonstrations, streets filled with crowds, demanding peace and their own state?

My history and just observing current events with my eyes are telling me that instead of making their state a reality as they could have multiple times, Palestinians are weirdly obsessed with the existence of Israel as a whole and streets are only filled with cheering crowds if Israeli hostages or bodies are paraded through them.

Meanwhile, Israel has two Supreme Court judges of Arab descent, one of whom sent two Jewish Prime Ministers to prison, the recent head of Israel’s oldest and largest bank was an Israeli Arab, Arab citizens are part of the national soccer team, the police, the medical services, the judiciary, the list goes on and on.

Looks like it’s the same in Israel as the rest of the world: If you’re not hellbent on killing your neighbor because you discriminate them based on their creed, looks, whatever, people welcome you to take part in society.




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