Reply #18: I am not a racist and you live on another planet

[tocqueville]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BEN108A.html

http://www.zmag.org/cohenmideast.htm

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/racism.html

http://www.doublestandards.org/meehan1.html

Israeli Racism by any other name
By Yitzhak Laor
Haaretz

Adar2 28, 5765

It was announced this week that the government plans to stiffen the rules for granting citizenship to non-Jews, through amendments to the law that make it difficult to grant legal status to Palestinians and other foreigners married to Israeli citizens. The prime minister held a special discussion of the issue and decided to establish a committee headed by the interior minister. The Interior Ministry claims that some 55,000 applications for Palestinian family reunification through marriages to Israeli Arabs have been submitted since 1968, and that natural growth increased the "naturalized" population to some 137,000 Arabs - about one-tenth of the Arab minority in Israel.

Less than two years ago, when the government backed down from its intention to make it difficult to grant legal status to Palestinians who married Israeli citizens, because of opposition from the legal advisor to the Knesset, the Knesset Interior Committee held a closed door session. The head of the Shin Bet provided "data about the scope of involvement in terror activity by people who have blue identity cards because of family unification," said Haaretz on July 30, 2003. Then, too, the entire matter sounded dubious. But the discussion was framed in the context of "security" to pass the High Court of Justice. Now they are channeling it into a "discussion of immigration," once again framing it for the High Court's ears. In the background is the constant equation, "what's bad for the Arabs is good for the Jews." Betar Jerusalem's fans screaming their "death to Arabs" slogans are less dangerous than Eiland and Gavison.

(haaretz is of course a known Palestinian magazine - sarcasm)

google "israeli racism" and you'll find interesting information. Avoid any link from arabic sources, they could be biased.

the problem is that in the US controlled media any hint about wrongdoings from Israel suppressed or minimized. European TV channels, pick any show a nuanced picture of the situation, that's the whole difference. You'll never see for example a 16 years old Palestinian stoned to death by Gaza settlers because he was just walking by - in front of passive soldiers.

Unlike Bush's world, we don't believe that the world is either black or white. And not ALL Israelis are racists, many of them DO protest against racism in the Israely society. As in any other country. Which is a good sign.

And it is another fact that the holocaust is used as an excuse

http://www.clal.org/e41.html

Luckily there are plenty of Jews both in Israel and abroad that share my opinion.

So get informed before you tax people as racists because they submit facts that bother you or you don't have heard before.