Reply #50: "The Palestinians everyone keeps speaking of do NOT live in Israel"

[Jack Rabbit]

Neither do Israeli settlers. However, the settlers have far more rights in the Palestinian Territories than the Palestinians do.

As many have said, the comparisons with South African apartheid have nothing to do with Israel proper. It has to do with the occupied territories.

The comparisons to South Africa are not bogus. Israel has run the territories as part of Israel ever since Mr. Begin (who couldn't read a map) said they were part of Israel; the Palestinians have no rights in their own land. This discrimination is based on nationality. It is racist. If Israel were to formally annex the territories, there would soon arise a situation where the Jews in the Jewish state would be a numerical minority. Do we wait until then to call the comparison with South Africa valid? Is that when we can start questioning Israels' claim to be a democracy?

Or perhaps Israel will hold on their numerical majority somehow? Would the existence of second-class citizenship for Palestinians still assure Israel's right to be called democratic as long as the Palestinians are a minority? As long as they are a minority, will the GOI have the right to kick them out of their homes to make way for housing in which they cannot live accessed on roads on which they cannot travel?

White Southerners where a greater numerical majority over blacks after the civil war. Did that validate Jim Crow laws?