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Originally Posted by blankall
Anyway, this is all a little off topic. My points are this:
1) A minority wanting their own country is not the same thing as racism.
2) If Israel lost its jewish character and accepted an arab/muslim majority it would cease to exist as a state with any real jewish character and the jews living there would be at the mercy of fanaticals wanting a pan arab/muslim state.
For the record the holocaust was not an excuse to give the jews a state. At most it was the straw that broke the camel's back. Plans to create a jewish state and emigration to what is now Israel started long before the holocaust.
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Ah, real posts, I'm glad HOZ didn't kill the thread completely. Thank you to you and Psycnet for providing a jewish perspective on this.
While I agree with you that a minority group wanting their own country is not akin to racism, ghettoization, indescriminant killing and apartheid style policies
are racist. The cantons in Gaza and the West Bank are no different than Germany's ghettos or South Africa's Bantu Stands in my opinion, and they should be seen as such.