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The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes back to the foundation of the state, the new law also carries clear discriminatory elements that target the country’s Arab communities, numbering nearly two million people.
The “Jewish Nation-State Bill” is the latest concoction of Israel’s rightwing Zionist Jewish parties, which have dominated Israeli politics for years. With the Israeli “Left” rendered irrelevant, or has itself moved to the right, the right wing elements of Israel are now the supreme rulers of that country.
By strict definition, Israel is, at best, an inadequate “democracy” or a democracy for Jews only, although it has promoted itself for decades as the “Middle East’s only democracy”. Like other Middle Eastern governments, Israel uses all the right sounding words and phrases, but its political system is neither fair nor representative of all citizens regardless of race, ethnicity or religion.
In some way, Israel behaves as if Palestinian Arabs – Christian or Muslim – do not exist. Whether citizens of Israel or the occupied Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank or besieged Gaza, they are all, to varying degrees, invisible to Israel’s political system....
More here: Jewish Nation-State Bill: Israel’s Precarious Identity Is Palestine’s Nightmare by -- Antiwar.com
And this racist, fascist, theocracy has nuclear weapons!
The “Jewish Nation-State Bill” is the latest concoction of Israel’s rightwing Zionist Jewish parties, which have dominated Israeli politics for years. With the Israeli “Left” rendered irrelevant, or has itself moved to the right, the right wing elements of Israel are now the supreme rulers of that country.
By strict definition, Israel is, at best, an inadequate “democracy” or a democracy for Jews only, although it has promoted itself for decades as the “Middle East’s only democracy”. Like other Middle Eastern governments, Israel uses all the right sounding words and phrases, but its political system is neither fair nor representative of all citizens regardless of race, ethnicity or religion.
In some way, Israel behaves as if Palestinian Arabs – Christian or Muslim – do not exist. Whether citizens of Israel or the occupied Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank or besieged Gaza, they are all, to varying degrees, invisible to Israel’s political system....
More here: Jewish Nation-State Bill: Israel’s Precarious Identity Is Palestine’s Nightmare by -- Antiwar.com
And this racist, fascist, theocracy has nuclear weapons!
