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In reply to the discussion: An Organized Barbarity Called 'Demolishing Terrorists’ Homes' [View all]Little Tich
(6,171 posts)37. Not for non-Israelis in the occupied territories.
There are also different laws in Israel for Israelis with full (Jewish) citizenship and those without, but that's not discriminatory enough to count as Apartheid.
Do you think that having two different legal system for civilians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is Apartheid or not?
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that's how people roll in the Middle East--collective punishment is the rule in that
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#1
Weird how this animates folks more than terror attacks against 80 year old women. n/t
shira
Nov 2015
#14
funny how some get more worked up over Facebook posts than collective punishment,
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#16
if you were a Palestinian living in Gaza, or the West Bank for that matter,
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#18
Do you consider calls for ethinc cleansing of Palestinians to be hateful incitement? nt
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#20
Do you? If so, calling for the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from the W.Bank & Gaza.....
shira
Nov 2015
#21
Well, you have posted articles explicitly calling for Arabs to be ethnicly cleansed,
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#22
I did. Here, let me quote for you the hateful, genocidalist incitement you posted at DU
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#24
the article is published at a well-known Jewish hate site that reveres Meir Kahane nt
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#26
So you're good with 2 states & Jews living as Palestinians within a future Palestine?
shira
Nov 2015
#112
Thank you for posting about these heroic incidents from our country's glorious past.
Crunchy Frog
Nov 2015
#38
I just find your "either or" questions rather sophomoric in nature and ridiculous overall.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2015
#111
Having two different legal systems for civilians due to their ethnicity / nationality is one
Little Tich
Nov 2015
#30
The only places I know of with two separate legal systems for civilians are
Little Tich
Nov 2015
#51
Over 10 million American citizens are denied voting rights & most are minorities....
shira
Nov 2015
#76
That you compare how Israel treats all Palestinians to how the US treats convicted felons
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#77
the west bank is an apartheid state. there are Jews-only roads, Jews-only towns,
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#91
Lol, Israeli-only roads that lead to Jews-only colonies inside the West Bank. nt
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#93
Making shit up again? Please provide a link showing the % of the West Bank
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#95
So you consider Jerusalem a settlement rather than part of Israel proper? nt
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#97
Huh? Are they not settlements in your views? Reuters reports them as settlements.
shira
Nov 2015
#99
the apartheid roads in question are not between east and west jerusalem. pay attention nt
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#100
Which offends you more? Terror attacks on random Jews or demolition of terrorists' homes? n/t
shira
Nov 2015
#72
Palestinians who are Israeli citizens aren't treated like Palestinians in the W.Bank....
shira
Nov 2015
#74
And yet they're supposedly Israeli citizens, and are treated as badly as Palestinians in the WB.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2015
#110
BDS isn't stealing Bedouin land, Shria, but do go on with your phantoms...
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2015
#114
I see, as long as it only involves discrimination against Palestinians, its perfectly fine?
procon
Nov 2015
#12
More like if we moved into Mexico, and burned out the houses of non-American Hispanics
Crunchy Frog
Nov 2015
#39
yes, every criminal's mother should be forced to live on the street. As should his children and
geek tragedy
Nov 2015
#89
An Israeli military committee I suppose we could quibble study but here's the link
azurnoir
Nov 2015
#49