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Thread #67315   Message #1132321
Posted By: CarolC
09-Mar-04 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
Subject: RE: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
No Guest, C-Watch. I said:

Although if you want to use the term "mass murder" to describe what the suicide bombers do to innocent Israeli children, then by comparison, what the Israeli soldiers and settlers are doing to innocent Palestinians must be described as GENOCIDE.

I don't consider what the suicide bombers are doing to be "mass murder". So, conversely, I don't consider what the Israelis are doing as genocide. This distinction may be too subtle for you to see, but it is an important distinction nevertheless. I do not consider what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians to be genocide.

Despite the occasional statements of a few Isreali extremists, with little popular support, Israel has never attempted to remove the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza.

This is something that only time will tell.

Furthermore, as you probably well know, Israel has a substantial population of Arabs whose families stayed in 1948. They have full rights of citizenship and are proportionatly represented in the Israeli Knesset. Your statement is a lie meant to inflame and cause hatred.

What I "know" is that the Palestinians in Israel do not enjoy the same rights of citizenship as the Israeli Jews. There are a whole differen set of laws that apply to people who are not Jewish, and the laws governing representation in the Knesset is different for non-Jews than it is for Jews.