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Spider Jerusalem

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9. This is one of the problems of ethnic nationalism

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 05:10 AM

Jan 2014

it lets demagogues paint any opposition as motivated by racism.

And "shrink the State of Israel"? No, successive Israeli governments have sought to enlarge it in contravention of international law (which doesn't recognise Israel's occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights).

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