Israel/Palestine

shira

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15. Only about 10% of Palestinians would agree to a secular, liberal western style democracy.

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 10:06 AM

Jul 2016

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http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/other/PalestinianPollingReport_June2014.pdf

Remember Joint Party Balad MK's talking about no gay rights, etc.? So what makes you think another Arab majority state in that region with Jews as a minority would be a good thing? If 90% of Palestinians would rather live in a society based on Sharia Law, who are you to disagree?

Do you support a change in Palestinian policy, from demanding an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, to demanding equal rights for Arabs and Jews in one state in Historical Palestine, from the river to the sea?

69% of Palestinians said 'No' to this.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/palpopeace.html

The percentage of Israeli Jews is far higher than that, so why are you advocating 1-state after a full "right of return"? How are you going to impose your colonial white man's solution on the brown-skinned Jewish and Arab natives of that region?

Seriously. I'd like an answer to all this, otherwise you're all smoke and mirrors.

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BDS and Israel-hatred are the worst of both communism and alt-right ericson00 Jul 2016 #1

BDS and Israel hatred not the sane unc70 Jul 2016 #2

The former is motivated by the latter. aranthus Jul 2016 #3

These antisemitic bastards support right of return. aranthus Jul 2016 #4

+1 King_David Jul 2016 #5

I personally don't think that promoting equal rights for Palestinians is anti-Semitic. Little Tich Jul 2016 #7

This post in the AA group may also apply here GeoWilliam750 Jul 2016 #9

Yup. 100%. n/t Little Tich Jul 2016 #12

They aren't about equal rights and neither are you. aranthus Jul 2016 #10

Ah, "separate but equal"? Little Tich Jul 2016 #11

Only about 10% of Palestinians would agree to a secular, liberal western style democracy. shira Jul 2016 #15

You're the one advocating the one-state state solution, not me. Little Tich Jul 2016 #18

Wait - that's so much bullshit, I can't take it anymore.... shira Jul 2016 #21

If the partition plan from 1947 would've been adhered to, the Palestinian refugees would've been Little Tich Jul 2016 #24

Nope. Not all refugees come from within the green line.... shira Jul 2016 #31

So guess who's hindering them from returning... (Hint: It's not the PA.) Little Tich Jul 2016 #35

Palestinians are the only refugees that have increased in numbers.... shira Jul 2016 #36

Are France and Germany separate but equal? aranthus Jul 2016 #16

So ethnic discrimination is OK in the name of ethnic sovereignty then? Little Tich Jul 2016 #19

You didn't answer the question. aranthus Jul 2016 #22

They're two separate countries with separate populations. Little Tich Jul 2016 #23

So could be Israel and Palestine. aranthus Jul 2016 #25

Ah, so you're a revisionist... Little Tich Jul 2016 #26

No. You believe lies aranthus Jul 2016 #28

I suppose that if one starts drinking the hasbara kool-Aid, there's no going back to reality. Little Tich Jul 2016 #30

We've had this discussion before. aranthus Jul 2016 #38

Did you download a copy of Morris's "The Birth of the Palestinian refugee problem revisited"? Little Tich Jul 2016 #39

You keep misreading him. aranthus Jul 2016 #40

What a joke quoting Illan Pappe and accusing others of revisionism. shira Jul 2016 #34

Oops? n/t Little Tich Jul 2016 #37

Wikipedia: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 Little Tich Jul 2016 #27

So what? aranthus Jul 2016 #29

UNGAR 194 is about Refugees willing to live at peace who return.... shira Jul 2016 #32

Last time there was one state was 1947 & there was civil war.... shira Jul 2016 #13

Once a civil war, always a civil war? Little Tich Jul 2016 #17

Uh.....ever heard of Hamas? WTF makes you think they want to live... shira Jul 2016 #20

Do you support Israel allowing in Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc.? n/t shira Jul 2016 #33

These racist degenerates called the 2014 IDF military operation... shira Jul 2016 #6

While I personally think calling the war on Gaza "genocide" is hyperbole, Little Tich Jul 2016 #8

BDS is all hyperbole, lies, & Jew hatred. Not much else. n/t shira Jul 2016 #14