Shusha
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Israel declared independence in Palestine.
The Jewish people declared their sovereign self-determination in their homeland. That it was called “Palestine” by outsiders has no relevancy to the Jewish people.
Just as the fact that it is called Eretz Israel has no relevancy to the Arab people.
Still BOTH the Arab Palestinians and the Jewish Palestinians (now Jewish Israelis) have rights to self-determination and sovereignty within that territory.
There is no way of denying one and granting the other without being discriminatory.IOW, apartheid.There is no way of denying one and granting the other without being discriminatory.
Well now, that is an interesting take. You are claiming an equivalency between the self-determination and sovereignty of ethnic or cultural peoples and apartheid. ALL nations built upon an ethnic or cultural group, then, are apartheid.
Scotland, Wales, Ireland, England = apartheid.
Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia = apartheid.
Spain and Catalonia = apartheid.
Korea = apartheid.
Japan = apartheid.
Armenia, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia = all apartheid.
Cherokee Nation = apartheid.
Nisga'a Nation = apartheid.
I could go on and on. In fact, one would be hard-pressed to find a nation which is not apartheid under your definition. The only ones which come to mind are those colonized lands such as Canada, US and Australia. (Oh, the irony.)
IOW, you are vastly expanding the definition of apartheid to suit your Israel (Jew) hatred. You are creating your own definition of the term expressly so you can demonize the Jewish State. You are also only speaking out about a single apartheid in a world full of apartheid nations (double standards).
Further, the self-determination of a peoples is one of the most basic principles in international law. And it is one you argue frequently.
Your own argument is inherently contradictory. How are you going to reconcile it? Oh, you won't. You'll put up a couple of your dancing men, or mark this post "funny" or if I've really hit home, I'll get the doofus emoji.
Nobody talks about the Jewish people who were kicked out of their : Native Country"
Or that they were kicked out because of Israel.
Wait what?! We are allowed to kick people out of a country based on what other people of the same ethnic or cultural designation do?!
So, for example, if Arab Palestinians say, lob rockets at Jews in Israel, it’s kosher to ethnically cleanse America of its Arab Palestinians?
Because, you know, Palestinians.