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The racism epidemic
Sami Michael
Published: 27.03.13, 10:00
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31. Michael of California dude
HaifaGuy   (03.27.13)
Shpeek for yourself, yankel. Wanna see a total rebuttal of your suicidal nonsense? Come for a visit and get really upset by witnessing a complete opposite of what your wishful thinking part of the brain tells you. California, eh? Not exactly the healhiest mental asylum in the world.
32. Stalnism is the WORST form of Racism and Sami Michael is
Eli ,   Haifa   (03.27.13)
Stalnism is the WORST form of Racism and Sami Michael is Israel's worst Stalinist
33. Racism basic tenet of judaism. jewish suoeriority taught in
(03.27.13)
34. Yes, we are racists, racing to not get killed...
Yosi ,   Gilo-Jerusalem   (03.27.13)
Racing against the lies saying that these arabs were here prior to us. Racing against Sami Michael and his group of handwringers that want to see us let these arabs kill us and give us a beautifull eulogy. Sami, Sami, we don't want them in our neighborhoods because we don't want to be killed. Just a survival thing I guess. Enlightened? Me thinks thou are endarkened.
35. Nasty types at all levels
Zechariah   (03.27.13)
The African and Balkan Wars with Mass Murder Genocide Torture and Mutilation Reveal the Evil momentum is hard to stop.Bad People will be worse and act but a better tolerance with Hypervigilance is Achievable.
36. #31 Guy, Israel is better all the time.
Michael ,   California, USA   (03.27.13)
I am coming, I am coming. However, Judaism is worse all the time; I am already there, I am already there.
37. Sami Michael is right
israel israeli ,   tel aviv   (03.27.13)
I am sad to say that I agree with Sami Michael. We saw the pure racism when Jews were physically attacked for living in what racists want to be ethnically pure Arab neighborhoods in Pekin, Sahnin, and Jerusalem. We saw how supremacists in Um El Fahem rioted to prevent Jews from visiting. Every week we hear reports how the police collaborate with the Muslim KKK to prevent people from visiting the Temple Mount just because they are Jewish. Sadly, Israel is riddled with racism and no one cares.
38. I disagree!
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (03.28.13)
I meet many so-called 'secular' Israelis here in the UK and I find them libral and tolerant people, happy to marry out, and often very distant from the local Jewish community. I am in touch with Israelis inside Israel and again I do not find racism, let alone an epidemic. Given the amount of anti-Jewish material in the Arab and Islamic media I find Israelis surprisingly non-racist. I do, however, find a certain amount of sinat chinom between groups within Israeli Jewish society.
39. Same old leftist trick
Philippe ,   Raanana   (03.28.13)
The leftist trick tries again to put Israel under gross slander. racism ! Apartheid ! Occupation ! What a joke, what a grotesque defamation:There is no other vibrant democracy in the middle east like Israel where individual freedom is so high.Yet Mr Sami Michael keeps on portraying us as racist bigots, when we bult just the opposite a very liberal society,Mr Sami Michael keep your slandering and gross generalisations for other targetsm but I guess you are on a special mission
40. If Yahoo keeps apologising killing Jewish people
Miron ,   USA   (03.28.13)
will be considered help to our PM. In the end, how long any well educated, mild mannered, and extremely well endowed family can tolerate such a troubling tribe around their name.
41. arabs get out? um the actual issue is even more simple
jack bauer   (03.28.13)
if an arab can swear loyalty to the state of Israel, rather then swear to destroy it and the jews in it, then he/she has no issue. If however they believe in islamic teaching that requires them to kill us all or forcibly convert us all, then they have no place in the land and can move to a nearby country where that is common belief... case closed... its not racist, its realist
42. More please !!! ,...
split ,   US   (03.28.13)
Very refreshing next to Horing's, Gerstenfeld's or most of the talkbackers warmongering or whining loads ,...
43. The author wrongly uses the meaning of racism
Oleg ,   USA   (03.28.13)
Even if there can be some kind of racism, that is expressed individually, I do not believe, that Israel society is a racist society. The problem of hatred toward Arabs that could exist on a larger scale in Israel does not represent racism. The root of this hate is not based on race, religion or nationality. It is based on the notion that Israeli Arab population is an enemy inside the state, some hidden enemy, some open. If Israeli Arabs would show their loyalty towards the State they live in and not towards its neighbors, there practically won't be any attack on them whatsoever. By the way such support will eliminate base for continious aggression from Arab countries against Israel. But tell me what Arab country is looking for peace with Israel? None.
44. Earning Racism??
Marlene Newesri ,   New York City   (03.28.13)
I guess this shouldn't surprise me because those who are racists will use every conceivable justification when they themselves are racist. That attitude can be applied collectively to all people who have been victims of hatred and racism, Surely, it's no different that those with Nazi ideologies who felt the same way towards the victims of their detestible ideologiy, and they felt that their victims also "earned" what they got for one reason or the other. Having myself lived in Israel for a time, the racism towards the Arab population is disgusting only based on the fact that they are "Arabs." It's not generally confined just to the attitude of most people, but is rooted in Israel's laws and policies since 1948, which is actually a green light for the popuation to display their arrogant hatred and racism..
45. #43 - Another pathetic hasbara peddler ,...
split ,   US   (03.28.13)
It's not only the Arabs you hate but everything and everyone that dare to have a different opinion or refuse to dance to your drum beat ,...
46. RACISM
ode ,   NY USA   (03.28.13)
ALL OF YOU WHO SPEAK AGAINST RACISM WHERE WERE YOU TO SPEAK AGAINST RACISM OR GIZANUT OF CHAREIDIM ?It is time for all of you to COME OUT AND SPEAK THE TRUTH>>>>YOU HATE THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW THE REAL TORAH ACCORDING TO HALACHA AND YOU WANT TO SEE ISRAEL FREE FROM THE WAYS OF TORAH!THE ARABS WERE GIVEN 22 COUNTRIES,ERETZ YISRAEL HASHEM GAVE TO AM HAYEHUDI TO FOLLOW ACCORDING TO THE TORAH!Where are all of you to speak up for the CHareidi bashing???
47. To # 25 Crap!
Stan ,   Israel   (03.29.13)
48. To #15
Stan ,   Israel   (03.29.13)
So you justify racism because the "culture" of the racist is theatened? (or so he claims) Which means that you reject as irrelevant centuries of complaining by the Jews about anti-Semitism. I ask you HOW CAN A PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED SO MUCH RACISM, and never stop complaining about it, BE SUCH RACISTS THEMSELVES ?
49. To # 29 Richard
Stan ,   Israel   (03.29.13)
You are soooooo naive
50. To # 30
Stan ,   Israel   (03.29.13)
Well said !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
51. To all feel-good, self loving Kumbayatists TBs: History is
tom ,   tel aviv   (03.29.13)
a long series of evnts where one culture/belief system devours another one regardless of either's "morality-status quotient". This continues and will do so for forseeable future, until we manage to permanently mess up our human DNA and change our agressive/violent behaviour.I don't want Israel to go the way of the Dodo, regardless of how our behaviour reflects on the present, political correctness-scale as proposed by the highly educated, blind Rosa Luxemburg crowd. ROSA LUXEMBOURG,?, for Pete's sake!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????
52. # 46 Response
Sagi   (03.29.13)
When it comes to racism the Haredim are an outstanding example. They prove this on a daily basis by their ideology which is the cause of their behaviour and its ensuing actions, these are totally immoral, not to mention sometimes criminal.
53. Tom #51
Sagi   (03.29.13)
A person from the pages of history should be judged and understood in the context of his or her time and place on the planet.
54. #53: Which would put all the"ahead of their times" folks out
tom ,   tel aviv   (03.29.13)
of business :-)
55. #49 Stan. Brief posts are a very good idea for you.
Chaim ,   Israel   (03.29.13)
Your recent posts are brief. This is a good idea for you. Since you have nothing helpful or rational to say, why go on at length? Your ludicrous arguments to turn Israel into a 9 mile wide concentration camp, by ceding our heartland, insult human intelligence and dignity.
56. # 54 Tom
Sagi   (03.29.13)
I was about to admit that you have a good point, but then I thought that the descendents of Jules Verne are still raking in the royalties.
57. S.Michael's Article
V.R. Sonti ,   USA   (03.29.13)
Yes it is shocking, but hopefully, this is confined to a few punks.
58. Exaggerated concept of Racism
Robyn ,   Canada   (03.29.13)
Having lived in Poland(as a toddler),Israel(ages between 4-8) and Canada for my whole adult life, I find Sami's example of "racism" trivial to the extreme. I hear disparaging words about Jews every day. Job discrimination is always there etc..It has never occurred to me to call Canadian society "racist". Canada is a multicultural society and therefore enclaves of ethnic groups will act according to what benefits that group. Israel is in many ways a coalescence of many Jewish cultures.Friction is a natural result. Israel is in its establishing phase in its modern history. Israelis and Jews are too self critical, to their own detriment. Give Israel a few generations to integrate and build its future. I remember when as a child in Israel( in the sixties), Mizrachi Jews demonstrated, claiming discrimination.I know that it is very popular to minutely dissect Israel's " wrong doings"but it is also a very unhealthy one. Do not be a bitter old man and remember that we are one nation with one heart.
59. #44 Earning Racism ??
Robyn ,   Canada   (03.30.13)
"Arab racism is rooted in Israel's laws".What laws are those?Can you name a few?I think you have it backwards.It is the Arabs( countries) that have institutionalized anti-Jewish laws. No Jews allowed in Arab countries. TV shows that demonize Jews.Education that teaches to hate & Destroy Jews. Systematic expulsion of Jews from Arab counties and Israeli/Jewish cities(old Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, Hebron). The list is endless. Even Abass had the nerve to freely state that "no Jews would be allowed in a future Pal state". The arrogant hatred and racism emanates from the Arab world. Your hatred is palpable in your post. According to your philosophy, did Israelis/Jews earn it?
60. #56:Nice one! I do love Jules Verne, sad not to be related!
tom ,   tel aviv   (03.30.13)
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