Reply #36: Where should criticism apply? [View All]

[Jackie97]

This is not only critcizing, but lumping Israel with two rich and powerful nations. But is it fair to Israel?"

I think that to a point, it is. While Israel isn't very strong compared to certain nations such as the United States, they are very strong compared to their neighbors. They have proven nuclear weapons (that can't be proven to exist in certain other ME countries). They have a good, strong military. Their economy is much better than some of the others because the US hasn't tried to exploit them for their natural resources or for anything else. The truth is that Israel is very much more powerful than its neighbors. I do think that my criticism does apply here.

I also have to say that as long as Israel has almost complete support from the United States, and as long as they stay such good and blind allies of the US; that this pretty much makes them as powerful as the United States. Almost anything that Israel wants to get away with can be protected by the most powerful nation in the world.

"It generalizes issues, and adds further to the anti-Israel sentiment."

Does criticizing the US or South Africa and what they do with their power make somebody anti-American or anti-South African? Some who say this stuff about Israel are against the existence of the state, but some just want Israel to clean up their act.

"The apartheid claim is far from proven, nor is the "racial basis" a fact."

Hmmm. Besides the racism of not giving Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza strip equal rights because almost all of them are suspected to be out to murder all of the Jews in Israel, let's see what other apartheid we have. Jews and Arabs are living in separate communities. There are settlements created just for Jews. One form of religious schooling gets more money than other forms of religious schooling (of course, there's more than just race involved in that). I had shown a source a while back on here before about how Arabs have a harder time leasing land than Jews in Israel. Just because Israel doesn't have something stupid like bathrooms for "Jews only" doesn't mean that they don't have their own form of apartheid. Personally, I'm fed up with the idea that Israel shouldn't be criticized like others because they're "the Jewish state". They're no less deserving of criticism than anybody else.