Jimmy, Jimmy...
Dear Jimmy,
I heard you said Israel keeps an "apartheid" regime, or as you rephrased, its policies and practices in the West Bank and Gaza are apartheid like.
As often people do the same mistake, even those who are not senile, I decided to correct you on this, might someone else read.
I've been in the old South Africa, and I live in Israel now, so I can compare.
South Africa kept people of two different races apart. To simplify, the blonds were in the government and driving Jaguars, the blacks on the mud and deep in the mines.
Israeli citizenship (with full rights for all citizens, how do you like that in the middle east?) is held by blacks and whites, Muslims, Christians and Jews, Israeli natives and immigrants from all over the world. The parliament looks like a Benetton add, and there are Muslims and Druze on the cabinet and in the highest ranks in the army. Look at the staff of Haifa municipality (www.haifa.gov.il), about half of them are Muslims, though they don't account for half of the population.
In South Africa, there were different buses for blacks and whites.
Well, there is some discrimination here. Though Muslims and Jews share their commuting, it's only Muslims who explode the buses.
The "find the diff's" list could go on, but I'm eager to ask you some questions. Did you know that your "personal friend (sic)" Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan is an activist of holocaust denial?
Do you think premarital sex deserves the capital punishment? Torture? Your personal friend enthusiastically enforces that in the "almost completely open and free society (sic)" of his Emirate.
You are not an integrist Jimmy, and that's the worst part. For the sake of notoriety you not only support the atrocities of fundamentalist regimes, but you are dooming the thin hope of this region.
Palestinian children are tought that exterminating Zionism is worth dying. Not out of desperation, but with joy it is that they wrap themselves with explosives and run to the checkpoint. Then the story starts once again: bullets, innocents die, curfew, international condemnation, threats, more bullets, prisoners exchange, a new peace plans, speaches everywhere, lots of media coverage, and the wheel spins again.
While you keep fueling this roulette of hate, while you keep making them believe that sweeping away a country like Israel (massacring 6 millions again, by the way) is actually ok, that is understandable, that there is more hope in that than in taking responsibility and start building a country, we'll still be doomed. The Palestinians more than us, but we get hurt too.
Jimmy, you will die soon, and nobody is going to remember you in 100 years from now. If you can't help, stay sit.
I heard you said Israel keeps an "apartheid" regime, or as you rephrased, its policies and practices in the West Bank and Gaza are apartheid like.
As often people do the same mistake, even those who are not senile, I decided to correct you on this, might someone else read.
I've been in the old South Africa, and I live in Israel now, so I can compare.
South Africa kept people of two different races apart. To simplify, the blonds were in the government and driving Jaguars, the blacks on the mud and deep in the mines.
Israeli citizenship (with full rights for all citizens, how do you like that in the middle east?) is held by blacks and whites, Muslims, Christians and Jews, Israeli natives and immigrants from all over the world. The parliament looks like a Benetton add, and there are Muslims and Druze on the cabinet and in the highest ranks in the army. Look at the staff of Haifa municipality (www.haifa.gov.il), about half of them are Muslims, though they don't account for half of the population.
In South Africa, there were different buses for blacks and whites.
Well, there is some discrimination here. Though Muslims and Jews share their commuting, it's only Muslims who explode the buses.
The "find the diff's" list could go on, but I'm eager to ask you some questions. Did you know that your "personal friend (sic)" Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan is an activist of holocaust denial?
Do you think premarital sex deserves the capital punishment? Torture? Your personal friend enthusiastically enforces that in the "almost completely open and free society (sic)" of his Emirate.
You are not an integrist Jimmy, and that's the worst part. For the sake of notoriety you not only support the atrocities of fundamentalist regimes, but you are dooming the thin hope of this region.
Palestinian children are tought that exterminating Zionism is worth dying. Not out of desperation, but with joy it is that they wrap themselves with explosives and run to the checkpoint. Then the story starts once again: bullets, innocents die, curfew, international condemnation, threats, more bullets, prisoners exchange, a new peace plans, speaches everywhere, lots of media coverage, and the wheel spins again.
While you keep fueling this roulette of hate, while you keep making them believe that sweeping away a country like Israel (massacring 6 millions again, by the way) is actually ok, that is understandable, that there is more hope in that than in taking responsibility and start building a country, we'll still be doomed. The Palestinians more than us, but we get hurt too.
Jimmy, you will die soon, and nobody is going to remember you in 100 years from now. If you can't help, stay sit.
posted by David Schkolnik at 1:21 PM
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