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The people arrested will have been charged, right?
Thousands are under "administrative detention" which is imprisoned without charge.
That just sounds like hostages with extra steps.
Oh it’s okay, these people aren’t from Gaza. So they’re not related to the conflict going on.
This is just what day-to-day life for Palestinians is like under Israeli occupation. This stuff has been happening for decades.
No, no, no.
Just like there can't be such a thing as State Terrorism "because it's legal so can't be terrorism", there can't be State Hostage-taking "because it's legal"!
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What that other person said, but also being charged under Israeli law doesn't prove much about a Palestinian's innocence or guiltiness. The word Apartheid is an understatement of what's going on in Palestine.
Being charged never says anything about anyone's guilt or innocence, anywhere.
Israeal literally has separate citizenships for arabs - specific an Israeli Arab Citizenship - and for jews - who have an Israeli Jew Citizenship - and in that country rights which in any other country in the world would be associated with nationality (i.e. Israeli) are in fact associated with citizenship and they're different for Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews, with the former having less rights.
In fact one of the limitations that Israeli Arab citizens have which Israeli Jew citizens do not is that they can be blocked from living in certain places and also they can be kicked out of their homes much more easilly (which is being used to kick them out of their homes in Old Jerusalem) so they most definitelly do not "live anywhere in Israel".
It is not just de facto Appartheid, it's de jure (by Law) Apparheid and a pretty extreme one at that.
They have less rights by law its unquestionably apartied.
No they don't. Israeli Arabs are full citizens.
Palestinians aren't Israeli, which is the core of why this argument devalues the concept of apartheid.
No one said they weren't, I said they have fewer rights because it's an ethnostate.
There are Palestinian isrealis dumb dumb, as I've said before do research before you comment.
It's literally not an ethnostate if there are people of different cultures and ethnicities with full citizenship.
There are Israelis of Palestinian origin. However, policies against the different nation of Palestine aren't apartheid. They're often bad policies, but apartheid doesn't mean "dumb shit policy."
It is if they have fewer rights by law, that's called apartied and makes it an ethnostate.
Just delete all the parts about how minoritarian rule is central to apartheid, as is denying representation, as well as racial segregation
Find a better definition of it then boss. You say I'm wrong, prove it to be.
Full citizens with less rights. That's like saying Jim Crow America was fine because African Americans were full citizens.
No it isn't. At most, it's like saying Jim Crow America wasn't apartheid. It wasn't. It was just shitty. For one thing, apartheid is explicitly minoritarian.
What "fewer rights" do they have? How is the power structured?
See the reason I ask is that Arab Israelis have almost exactly proportional representation in Israel's government, which is not how apartheid works at all.
No, that's South African specific. Everyone knows what you mean when you say apartied, it's called colloquialism.
You say there equal prove it, should be easy.
Almost exactly the same or the same, there's big difference there bud.
Bro. Just stop. You're ackshually-ing all over everyone's face.
You're being pedantic. They are second class citizens of the State of Israel. They are rounded up and put into open -air prisons, and they do not enjoy the same rights as Ashkenazi Israelis. Israel is an apartheid state.
This is not accurate.
Gaza is not an "open air prison." That is figurative language, to describe the awful conditions in Gaza.
It is not a literal prison. No Israeli citizen is "rounded up and sent to Gaza."
Ok fair, it's a concentration camp.
Do not downplay the term apartheid or genocide like this. Israel is an illegal apartheid state. And they are committing a genocide. Denying this really raises eyebrows you see.
Lol both of these are wrong though.
Here you are, lying on the internet again - I can't say I'm surprised at your lack of integrity - you're a fucking genocide denier.
The UN disagrees with you on both points.
If Israel doesn't want to be called an apartheid state it should stop its apartheid.
In my experience most people who say it's not an apartheid haven't really studied the history of Apartheid South Africa.
There are many features that resemble it, such as the tiered rights system, shifting people into designated areas with a system of checkpoints and barriers, creating resource scarcity, etc.
Even the rhetoric about God giving the land to the ruling ethnic group (who in both cases had ancestors subjected to concentration camps) is a similar narrative.
It's no coincidence that present-day South Africa has been one of the loudest voices calling for UN intervention in Gaza.
So the thing is: While the treatment of Palestinians in Israel proper does also constitute an Apartheid according to several organizations, I'm talking about the West Bank and Gaza here. Israel simply split Palestinians into different groups and subjects them to different levels of Apartheid. Palestinian Israelis are simply the people who were allowed oh so graciously by Israel to get the least bad level.
Also, your use of "mistreatment" is a massive understatement. Many people in high government positions in Israel want to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
See: https://thewire.in/world/israeli-government-population-transfer-gaza-strip
You think you're defending Israel but you're actually doing a much worse service to it. If Israel is guilty of apartheid, which I think it is, it has a clear path to redemption. If however the Israeli crimes are sui generis, then we end up with a whole new class of crime against humanity called "the crime Israel is doing to the Palestinians", for which the international order has no precedent for how to redeem. And that's a huge danger for Israel because it opens up the space of possible reactions, much much more widely than apartheid.
The crime Israel is doing to Palestinians (I've seen Nakba suggested as a name, so I'll use it for brevity) extends beyond Apartheid. The Nakba's intent is to take apart Palestinians' ability to exist as a political collective by dividing them and implementing varying levels of Apartheid and violence against them, up to and including genocide. This goes beyond South African Apartheid, whose goal was for black people to serve white people. The Nakba is meant to destroy Palestinians as an entity capable of having political will. This is why they're currently divided into Israeli citizens, East Jerusalemites, Gazans and West Bankers, with the goal of eventually ethnically cleansing the latter two (along with East Jerusalemites on a larger timescale).
The Nakba includes Apartheid as one of its components, but it's not Apartheid.
Do not downplay what Israel does by pretending it's better than South African Apartheid.
Yeah, to use the term apartheid is not accurate to explain the atrocity. Don't overplay 'apartheid', it's not the accurate term. We need a stronger term here; could be zionistheid or Israelitheid.
I've heard the term "Nakba" suggested as a name for the brand new crime against humanity Israel created.
yeah. but the term haven't got much traction outside of the Arabic-speaking populations.
or you have pogrom, or ethnic cleansing which is what it is