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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
What's remarkable about Israel is how it manages to maintain a strong democracy and freedom of speech even though it's the target of unrelenting belligerence from its neighbours and from terrorist organizations within the country. There are unquestionably mainstream and popular voices in Israel that condemn the expansion of settlements in the occupied territories.
In fact, the pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. (and American Jews in general) are more hawkish than Israelis themselves. It's easy to be inflexibly hardline from the safety of 7000 miles away.
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What is even more amazing is the same belligerence against Israel is used against their own populations. Yet you don't find many critics of Israel's neighbours, instead you find elaborate rationality for why they do that. This massive double standard is easily 'excused' by several posters. Despite Muslim freedoms in Israel being far greater (equal to Canada) than Israel's neighbours, just a few posts earlier Israel was accused of being an apartheid state.
At least the last few posts have included some actual discussion - yet do you notice how what is being debated is never the slanderous accusations against Israel?