Israel says it is NOT an APARTHEID STATE, as some accuse Israel of being. Israel goes out of its way to SHOW it’s not an APARTHEID STATE, like an Arab on the Israeli Supreme Court, like a “Miss Israel” who was chosen to represent Israel, even though she is an Arab, like Arabs in the IDF, like Arabs in key and influential positions, like Arabs in the Knesset, like the 20% of the population who is Arab, having full citizenship rights!
Israel fights back AGAINST THIS PROPAGANDA that Israel is an Apartheid State.
SO ... if someone asks me, “Why doesn’t Israel become an APARTHEID STATE?!” ... I just LAUGH because that person doesn’t know very much about Israel and its culture and laws of the land ... :-) ...
AND THEN ... in regards to not “committing state suicide” ... No, Netanyahu is not about to allow that ... which is why he said (in the last few days) that he is AGAINST a ONE-STATE SOLUTION, and is instead FOR a TWO-STATE SOLUTION.
Netanyahu is not about to commit NATIONAL SUICIDE and bring SIX MILLION ARABS from the Territories into Israel Proper!
“Apartheid state” is a leftist trope. It’s a red herring, inflammatory words designed to invoke emotion and cut off rational thought. Denying Arabs the vote does not equal “apartheid,” and conservatives shouldn’t accept that false premise.
The fact is that Israel is unique. Did the Boers in South Africa flee there after a tortured history of pogroms and genocide? No. Was SA established specifically to give the persecuted Afrikaans a safe homeland in the midst of a hostile world? No. And most important, did God Himself promise South Africa to white people? Of course not. So don’t toss around the word “apartheid” in reference to Israel.
Restricting the franchise to Jews is the most rational, least repressive, and most humane thing to do when a hostile minority is poised to threaten Israel’s very existence. It’s vastly preferable to the other alternatives. Israel needs to claim its own territory - all of it, including Judea and Samaria - and the Arabs can live there in peace without ethnic cleansing or expulsion. They just shouldn’t be allowed to vote.