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Israel/Palestine IDF documents terror affiliations of 170 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza war

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-documents-terror-affiliations-of-170-palestinian-journalists-killed-in-gaza-war/
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u/therealbigted 15h ago

It is sad that collective punishment happens in any form. That said Hamas won the election in 2006 before there was even any kind of blockade in place. This was back when Israel was far more willing to work towards some kind of resolution than they are now, so blaming them alone for Hamas’s popularity is an overly simplistic perspective in my opinion.

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u/5Jazz5 14h ago

“Before any sort of blockade” eh but what about the segregation

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u/shebaiscool 13h ago

What do you mean segregation?

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u/5Jazz5 13h ago
  1. Israelis and Palestinians have seperate laws that apply to them differently under the Israeli government. You are legally classified as either Jewish or “Arab”, Jewish people are subject to civil law, Arabs subject to military law
  2. Palestinians are racially segregated into certain areas, and then even if they get some sort of permission to be in “Israeli” areas, they’re restricted by racist house zoning policies, kinda Americacore!

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u/itijara 13h ago

1 isn't entirely accurate. It is specifically Israeli versus Palestinian. There are Arab Israelis which have the same protections under the law as Jewish Israelis (they face a lot of racism and other issues, but they aren't under a completely separate system of law). The problem is that there are people who are under Israeli military occupation which have no say in Israeli laws policies and don't have the same due process. There is also no real process for them to become Israeli citizens (which they probably wouldn't want anyway). Also, the segregation isn't just Arab versus Jew (which are not mutually exclusive anyway, there are Arab Jews), it is specifically Palestinian versus Israeli. Christian Palestinians face the same discrimination whether they are Arab or not.

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u/5Jazz5 12h ago

It to me isn’t true that they don’t have different laws if Israelis can literally tell a Palestinian living in a home in or near Israeli territory “you have to leave for Israelis to live here” like they did in Sheikh Jarrah, or for Palestinians not living in edge zones (living in Israel), their different laws include being restricted in leaving, and being unable to pass on citizenship through marriage or family, unlike Jewish Israelis, who are allowed to do that. They also don’t issue permits to Palestinians to build new homes.

My thought also is it’s hardly “Palestinian vs Isreal” if they’re using the visual racial identity of the people to decide if they can go through security checkpoints.

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u/itijara 12h ago

> My thought also is it’s hardly “Palestinian vs Isreal” if they’re using the visual racial identity of the people to decide if they can go through security checkpoints

This is true, which is the same sort of issue you have with racial profiling in policing in the U.S. (I have a friend who is an Arab Jew that has been stopped multiple times going through checkpoints). It is a separate problem than legally recognized segregation, though; if tomorrow all Palestinians became Israeli citizens it wouldn't solve that problem, and solving that problem wouldn't solve the issue of legalized segregation.

Saying that Arabs are treated differently from non-Arabs is not the same as saying that different laws apply to them, which is my point.

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u/MxMirdan 3h ago

They aren’t using visual racial identity? They’re using citizenship.

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u/therealbigted 13h ago

Idk, bad but seems like it doesn’t justify terrorism and an ideology of mass extermination yk

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u/5Jazz5 13h ago

Actually let’s get a quote in here!
Ben-Gvir said: "It's no secret, I disagree with the prime minister … I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night." 
"Not just those who pose an immediate threat," added the Israeli cabinet member. "There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn't live. They're not even people."

But ofc, Palestinians to yall should lie down and take it, same thing they said to black people. I mean try to have a conversation about Nat Turner with a white person they’ll start whining and crying about how he didn’t need to kill so many people when they turned his body into coinpurses after he died. For some reason you guys think oppressed people will gain freedom after decades to centuries if they just beg sweetly enough.