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Sudsy

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7. Whether or not the Jews
Thu Dec 27, 2018, 11:03 AM
Dec 2018

are a nation or a religion or both or something else entirely is irrelevant to their treatment of non-Jews under their state control in Israel, Gaza, and the Westbank.

Denying 20% of your own citizens equal status under your laws is not a matter of peoplehood. It is a matter of discrimination based on ethnic and religious exclusion. It is not something one encounters in France, Japan, or the US.

Giving Gaza back to the Palestinians and then turning it into the world's largest ghetto because you don't like who they elect to govern them has nothing to do with nationhood.

Maintaining a 50-year military occupation while slowly colonizing the land and dispossessing the indigenous residents is not something the civilized world accepts, whether in Tibet, Israel or anywhere else.

What I have said here is true or it is not. If it a lie you wish to disabuse me off, then prove it, but do please try to refrain from calling me a liar. It adds nothing to your argument.

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