Reply #39: Couldn't miss this one.

[shergald]

"Arabs and their decendants living in Israel as of 1949"

What about those who were refused return, the majority of Palestinians kicked out in 1948? How democratic.

As I have often repeated. The American experience, a full democracy, tells us that democracy is no guarantee that its people cannot be legally permitted to act in the most vile manner possible, including freely committing murder. Remember slavery and Jim Crow America? Or our treatment of American Indian populations? Remember the Eugenics Movement when thousands of developmentally disabled and normal individuals were forcably steralized? Remember the internment of Japanese-Americans at the beginning of WWII?

Give us a break. Israel, democracy or not, is practicing segregation against Israel Arabs. Call it apartheid if you will. There's no difference as far as I'm concerned.