ican711nm wrote:InfraBlue wrote:Advocate wrote:Israel is, by far, the least discriminatory and oppressive regime in the Middle East. I am sure that it ranks high for this in the world.
This assumption does not negate the fact that Israel is a discriminatory and oppressive state.
Your statement does not establish that your statement is a fact.
Advocate wrote:
Infra, Israel is, as it should be, aggressive in defending itself.
How is Israel discriminatory? Or are you just make a baseless assertion?
Israel is aggressive in defending itself, an ethnocentrically discriminatory state.
Zionists established a state, Israel, whose by-laws demand the maintenance of a religious/ethnic character, a "Jewish" character. The result thereof is that the state of Israel discriminates against its Arab population, and Arabs in general in various ways all in an attempt to maintain a "Jewish character" within the state.
The main way it discriminates against Arabs is that it restricts the immigration of Arabs to Israel. It doesn't allow its Arab citizens to marry Arabs outside of Israel and live with their spouses in Israel. The claim is that it imposes this restriction for reasons of security, not wanting to import terrorists through Arab marriage. The effect is repression and discrimination of its Arab citizens as a "managed minority" in the name of defending the ethnocentric ideals of the state of Israel.
Needless to say, the state of Israel refuses the Palestinian Arabs' Right of Return.
Discrimination is written directly into the state of Israel's by-laws whereby a candidate cannot run for a seat in the Knesset senate if he negates the existence of the state of Israel as the state of the Jewish people (7A[1] of the Basic Law of the Knesset). This by-law was nulled in the case of Azmi Bishara, one of only --- Arab members of the Knesset, by an Israel Supreme Court ruling that allowed him to stay on as an MK despite his public proclamations that Israel should be a democracy for all of its citizens. But, as Israel Supreme Court Justice Mishael Cheshin said, "Israel's democracy is strong and can tolerate irregular cases," implying that the case of Bishara alone could not harm Israel's ethnocentric directive.
In 2003 widespread and deeply ingrained discrimination against its Arab citizens was found in both official and public Israeli life through a commissioned report to the state of Israel, the Or Commission Report. This discrimination is based on the state of Israel's determination to maintain its basic identity as a "Jewish state."