Posted on 08/11/2005 5:34:31 AM PDT by SJackson
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"This was a planned terror attack and we find it extremely difficult to treat it as an individual action," Inbitawi told The Jerusalem Post. "It marks a certain trend that reflects a growing tendency of fascism and racism in Israeli society generally as well as the establishment towards the minority Arab community," he said.The Palestinians are the last people to be claiming that terrorist attacks neccesarily involve government sanction or even ambivalence. While the Israeli government may have been lax in dealing with Kach and its affiliated loose cannons (a fact they have recognized and are addressing), to claim they have any culpability in this attack is beyond ridiculous.
-Eric
And do you really blame them? Almost every Middle Eastern Country has tried to destroy Israel and I am surprised they have not tried to kick out all the arabs from their area, since they can be trusted as far has you could throw them...
I'm 100% pro Israeli, but they're right. Israeli laws are very repressive towards non-jews.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Palestinians can be voting citizens.
Context and perspective is everything.
This report can only be judged properly if those same arab "leaders" tell us by way of background how the Jewish minority citizens are treated in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan...
* crickets *
What a transparently ignorant statement!
I notice that Catholics, Presbytarians and Buhddists did not sign that sandmaggot press release!
It's the elephant in the living room.
Being a "Jewish State" is incompatible with the presence of a significant number of non-Jewish residents, and completely incompatible with a large (and growing) demographic of voting non-Jewish citizens.
What happens to Israel when the Israeli Arab population has grown to a voting majority?
You ain't kidding.
The IDF and police are set to expel them out of their homes by force. Destroy their livelihood. Tear up their houses of worship. Put them in some sort of refuge camps. Force them to dig up their dead sons who fell in battle.
Israel would never treat non Jews like that.
You sure you're 100% pro Israel? I suspect only 98%.
What did I leave out that you can point to how repressive Israel is to non-Jews?
It's the forced circumcisions and forcing Matzos down their throat at Passover that realy gets the non-Jews mad.
They should move to stinking Arab countries and see how much worse it is.
If they find life in Israel sooo oppressive, there are 22 Arab-ruled, Muslims-only nations. But they still enjoy a higher standard of living in Israel.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Yeah, especially those ones that require every gentile citizen to donate a pint of blood every year for the Passover matzah, and also give up the eyes of their first-born.
Those aren't so bad, it's the gefelte fish that pisses me off.
"The decision to draw up the document was taken by the committee after the attack by Jewish terrorist Eden Natan Zada in Shfaram on Thursday in which four local residents, Muslims and Christians, were killed. Zada himself died, apparently after being lynched by an angry mob."
Are they going to include the numerous lynchings committed by Jews of the thousandfolds greater number of Arab terrorists?
Maybe they will be inclined to depart for the new Palestinian State.
I love it when people that dont live in Israel talk about Israel. Its so amusing. You're a dimwit.
I love it when people that have no facts to back up their unreasoning blind hate resort to personal insults.
BTW I have lived in Israel, my son and daughter live in Israel now, and my son has served in the IDF.
Israel is racist? Yeah, right. Its Arab citizens enjoy voting rights, can get out of Army service (unlike most Jewish citizens), they get welfare, they get top notch medical care, they have the same benefits from the Israeli legal system as Israeli citizens, etc. Compare and contrast the situation of Jewish citizens of Arab countries...oh, that's right, the vast majority of Jews were "asked" (generally with the implied threat that they wouldn't survive long) to leave Arab lands in which their families had lived for hundreds or thousands of years right after Israel was created, and had their property either stolen or were forced to sell it for pennies on the dollar. Compare and contrast also with the Paleostinians, who absolutely refuse to live with Jews among them (which is why the Gaza Jews are being forcibly removed). Isn't that known as "ethnic cleansing?"
To be sure, Israel isn't a perfect nation - it is, after all, a country designed and run by fallible (and sometimes VERY fallible, i.e. Socialist) human beings. But to compare its actions with regard to Arab citizens as if they were equal to the treatment of Jews by Arab governments or the Paleos is absurd at best, and a calculated, vile and lying bunch of anti-Israeli and/or anti-Jewish propaganda.
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