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In reply to the discussion: NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani again refuses to acknowledge Israel's existence as a Jewish state [View all]
AloeVera
(4,036 posts)It's an important distinction.
He said:
"Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights.”
As in equal rights for all its citizens.
In spite of all the usual talking points I've seen on this thread (judges! Knesset members!) the sad reality is that Palestinian Citizens of Israel are second-class citizens in myriad ways. From housing (they mostly are confined to crowded "Arab" areas), education, infrastructure, allocation of resources - all the way to being deprived of their right to self-determination. The 2018 Nation State Law, for example, accords that right exclusively to Jewish people.
Palestinians in Israel live in the land of their ancestors as second-class citizens who are viewed with distrust and condescension by Israeli Jews who want them gone. To wit, a recent poll found that more than half of Israeli Jews want their OWN Palestinian citizens "transferred" or forcibly expelled, to other countries. Oh my.
Would you want your own country, the only one you have, not only to treat you as second-class, but live with the knowledge you are unwanted and your fellow citizens don't care you have no place else to go, they just want you GONE? What a terrible predicament for human beings.
What is wrong with equality?
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