Comments by "pplr1" (@pplr1) on "Arab, Israeli, and Proud | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. Its Prager/Proaganda U so lets see what they aren't telling us. Yes there are Arab citizens of the nation-state of Israel. There are also some lands Israel took control over in a war with other nation-states some decades ago, the people living in these lands are not treated as Israel citizens and are often referred to as Palestinians. Thus there are three groups of people-Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis, and Palestinians. The apartheid claims are about how the third group of people is treated-not the second. This group tries to confuse people over which is which. The reason Arab Israeli members of parliament would be able to pick who won is because the biggest political parties in that particular election were close to the number of seats they needed in order to win but not quite there. So smaller parties could form a coalition with either of the larger parties and become a tie breaker. I'm not critical of the Israeli political system that encourages or allows smaller political parties to make coalitions with larger ones. I'm not critical of the war the Israel fought and won decades ago when it was trying to (techically preemptively) defend itself against multiple neighboring nations. But there is still the question of how people are treated. And it is the third group of people, not the second, that the Israel nation-state treats the worst. And that is why Israel gets some of the negative media coverage it does. How to treat the people living on those lands nor what to do with the lands themselves has not yet been resolved after many years. Meanwhile people who are not treated well as a group an be easy for terrorist groups to recruit so no matter how thing started years ago a cycle of violence can continue today.
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