georgephillip
Diamond Member
Coats points out how Israel has been an apartheid state for decades and how that example of state-supported terrorism compares to a similar episode in US history.Kudos to Tony.
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CBS host grills Ta-Nehisi Coates on anti-Israel views in new book: Looks like it came from 'an extremist'.
'What is it that’s so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state?' CBS' Tony Dokoupil asked Coates.
By Kristine Parks, Fox News. Oct 1, 2024
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CBS host grills Ta-Nehisi Coates on anti-Israel views in new book: Looks like it came from 'an extremist'
CBS News interviewed author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book on Monday. The interview grew tense after Coates was grilled on his anti-Israel views.www.foxnews.com
Where's the "extremism" in that?
"How a country that maintains this separate and unequal system, how a country that does not even allow the, quote-unquote, 'Palestinian citizens' of the state full equality with its Jewish Israeli citizens is allowed to refer to itself as a democracy is a mystery to me.
"And the closest analog I can think of is the time in which the United States of America referred to itself as a democracy even as it was disenfranchising whole swaths of Black people in the Southern states.
"And so, when I say Jim Crow, when I say segregation, that is because that is the period that immediately comes to mind for me."
I know where Biden and Harris stand on Israel and Gaza. There are primaries for Congress every two years who's outcomes could influence the actions of Harris presidency, as small as a chance as that is. As I said I'm a pragmatist. I don't imagine allowing Harris to lose will teach the Democrats anything. That's engaging in wishful thinking and fantasy.