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Is Israel inherently racist?
Yigal Walt
Published: 04.03.12, 19:02
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31. Can't YNET learn the definition of race?
avi ,   nyc   (03.05.12)
I guess YNET has a vested interest in promoting the term racism, but since arabs and Jews are of similar racial stock, can you stop this idiocy?
32. Arabs are a very different minority than U.S. minorities.
Chaim ,   Israel   (03.05.12)
In the U.S., minorities simply want equal treatment. Arabs in Israel are a very different minority than U.S. minorities. Most Israeli Arabs seek to turn Israel into an Arab state. Both polls and elections prove this beyond doubt. That is a reality we must face and deal with.
33. #2 cristian
solomon ,   bklyn   (03.05.12)
"The international community" is your mantra for trying to convince people that your opinion is accepted by the world.  It isn't.
34. #6 ziad
solomon ,   bklyn   (03.05.12)
Read the article again.  Then watch Hamas TV which teaches your own children to kill Jews, that Jews are pigs, etc.  Then look up the word 'racist'.
35. #24. Arabs are racist against Jews
EgyptianJewishRefuge ,   Ex. Cairo, Egypt   (03.05.12)
#24: Arabs are even more racist against Jews. I know. I had to flee Egypt. So did 900,000 Jews have to flee Arab countries. Israelis are racists against Arabs because we are at WAR. Before the Intifida Palestinians worked in Israel.
36. 28 When secular Jews put all the...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (03.05.12)
orthodox in the same basket isn t that a kind of racism?Although the hate isn t based on physical but on opinion differences. I tried to discuss with some -haredi unfriendly- secular jews.That was very frustrating,and i am taking a break for the time being.
37. Nonsense article-Israel is not racist !!
Don Rosenberg ,   Palatine USA   (03.05.12)
Does Israel treat arab muslims somewhat differently , probably. But look at the racism and baby killing of these racist muslims. Israel has every right to profile and watch these back stabbers closely. If Israel is racist, every christian and muslim country should be classified as racist nazi's. Israel is more civilized and fair than any country in the world, period, including the US.
38. Arab muslims are the problem !!!!
Don Rosenberg ,   Palatine USA   (03.05.12)
The racist mentality of these ingrates is the problem. Muslims refuse to accept Jews, because they know the principles of their fake cult called islam is copied from Judaism. The muslims are jealous racists who can't compete in the world and blame everything on the Jews. Israel is not racist , all of the muslims and their countries are. This is a fact and the civilized world should accept it and attack these lying racists.
39. It's worse for the Ethiopian Jews. Yes Israel is racist
Sami ,   New York, USA   (03.05.12)
It's worse for the Ethiopian Jews. Yes Israel is racist. Israel must teach tolerance in the schools. And integrate the Ethiopians and stop the racism.
40. #18 Purpose of Israel
MarcV ,   Miami, FL USA   (03.05.12)
The point of Israel's founding--with international approval--was to provide a homeland for the Jewish people. So immigration restrictions make perfect sense. Do Arab states allow free expression of non-Muslim faiths? Do they grant their vast foreign workers citizenship? No.
41. Ora , good to see you're OK
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (03.05.12)
42. 41 Charles, thanks.
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (03.05.12)
43. #28 charles - good post.
solomon ,   bklyn   (03.05.12)
44. #23, #24, #25 ziad
solomon ,   bklyn   (03.05.12)
Your words i.e. mythical Holocaust shows clearly who is the racist! The arab governments use the myth of the "Palestinians" to get sympathy from the world. Arabs declared themselves "Palestinians" after the Six Day War and admitted it was a political ploy to fight Israel. They had previously insisted they were not "Palestinians" but arabs. Up to 1948, when you spoke of the Palestinians you meant the Jews. Follow your own advice. Use your mind and read what you are afraid to read. You make yourself out to be the victim. Nothing could be further from the truth. Arabs in Israel suffer from prejudice, but they have more freedom that you could even dream of. Read some history, and find out that the Holocaust was not a myth (we wish it was!), while "Palestinians" are. You show your hatred by your posts. Your compatriots, the "Palestinians", show their hatred by their actions.
45. Semitic is a language designation not one of race.
Jeffrey Korman ,   Douglaston, NY   (03.05.12)
46. To: No. 27
Ziad-Palestine   (03.05.12)
Dude! I am not looking at those very tiny aspects, I have wider view! BTW, regarding hospitals, about 1 month ago, it has been declared by Israeli police that one hospital did not give good cure for one Palestinian patient, and when the police arrested this patient after getting out from the hospital, they got surprised with his condition and the decided to (THROW) him in one street! then they some people found his dead body! I am sorry for what is going on in (Israel) this racism will burn Israeli society! God bless you!
47. To: #29
Ziad-Palestine ,   Canada   (03.05.12)
Dude, you have tiny view, we are not talking about food and toilet, this looks silly! I am talking about the whole system in (Israel)
48. To: #34
Ziad-Palestine ,   Canada   (03.05.12)
Dude, I did not say that we are angels! Palestinians are human beings exactly as "Israeli" but at least I admit, but you think that "Israelis" are God angels, this is totally incorrect my fried! God bless you!
49. To: #35
Ziad-Palestine ,   Canada   (03.05.12)
You are right my fried Arabs are racist against Jews, this is totally correct, I admit, good to see that you admit as well. My advice for all Israelis: Don't hide your heads in the sand, think with open minds and hears, and don't reject things before thinking well God bless you!
50. To: #44
Ziad-Palestine ,   Canada   (03.05.12)
My fried, If Jews suffer from Holocaust, it does't mean Palestinians must pay this back! Jews were victims of Holocaust, don't use this tragedy of Holocaust to be racist against Palestinians, we both suffer a lot. God bless you
51. 45 Jeffrey ,wrong...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (03.05.12)
Semits are the descendants of Sem ,son of Noah.
52. 46 , Give proofs !
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (03.05.12)
My sister was hospitalised in Hadassah En Kerem . In her room two Arabs who received the same treatments , by the same doctors . Tiny aspects ? a high court judge ? Freedom to travel , walk , vote , be elected . In my town i met more than once Arab people , they have no problems at all to shop , eat , go out , sit in buses . Tiny aspects ? You know what will eventually burn Israeli society ? it's your hatred and your lies . And , i won't say to you "god bless you" , you don't deserve it .
53. Gilon 1
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (03.05.12)
Racism and antisemitism are two terms who point out to an accepted idea . Not correct ? No , but everyone knows EXACTLY what those words mean , and they are used in those meanings . Racism has NOT to be based on race .
54. Secular MENA,BIG ISRAEL,pronounceable "abjads",CO-OPERATION.
Jerry ,   The Netherlands   (03.06.12)
55. #34, #44 ziad
solomon ,   bklyn   (03.06.12)
No one is perfect. But your people go out of your way to be evil. You teach hatred to your children and that its ok to kill others. Then you talk about it as if this is normal. It is not. You are therefore akin to the Nazis. (You are now going to post fictitious 'examples' of Jews being the same.) Thank you for admitting there was a Holocaust after blithely denying its existence in your previous post. Jews are not racist against "Palestinians". They are responding to pogroms, attacks by arabs, even on those Jews whose families have been there for centuries. They are responding to the terrorism and murder which you cause. They are reacting to the lies you spread about the ersatz history of so-called "Palestinians". They are responding to the acts of your fellow arabs. Yes, it does matter who started it. Your compatriots, the "Palestinians", show their true feelings by their actions. You have no legs to stand on.
56. @1, you have no idea in genetics and who are Palestinians
Biologist ,   Tel Aviv   (03.06.12)
First of all, Palestinian is a nationality, not ethnicity. Palestinian can be Arab and Jew (as it was until 1948). Second, there is no "race" among people - we are all one race "Homo Sapiens Sapiens", unless you are unique (ask to check your DNA then). Third - the closest Palestinian Arab relatives genetically are Saudis and Lebanese / Syrian Sunni Arabs. Palesitnian Arabs also closely but less resemble Ashkenasi and Yemenite Jews, and even less Sephardic Jews and Mizrahi Jews (who however all cluster together, with slight difference from Yemenite Jews, who show mixed with Saudi lines).
57. life is a deathmatch
sweeter than honey ,   far away   (03.10.12)
sometimes we form teams, if not it is all against all. that is our nature, there is no injustice in nature. there is the potential for injustice in any government, (which is not a natural human state), when those goverments act as forces of nature. (with thanks to thomas hobbes).
58. Q: Is Israel inherently racist?
Minka ,   Nice, France   (11.03.12)
A: Yes
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