JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

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    Not sure why you’re being downvoted… Israel an ethnostate, and what we’re seeing here are the early stages of a genocide. Look at any other ethnic cleansing in history, and you’ll easily see the parallels.

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      1 year ago

      Israel is definitely not an ethnostate. It has 20% Arabs. How many Jews does Palestine have?

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        Calling a state an Ethnostate doesn’t mean you’re saying the population is entirely of one ethnicity. It means one ethnicity is given a privileged status above all others.

        Israel was founded when Zionists purged Palestinians from their homes and forced them into Gaza and the West Bank in order to create a Jewish majority state. That makes Israel an ethnostate by definition.

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            Ahh I see. So because Zionists haven’t been able to successfully cleanse all Palestinians from the region, Israel doesn’t count as an ethnostate. Don’t worry though because by God they’re still trying their damndest to make it happen no matter how many thousands of children they have to murder.

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            No they don’t, many surviving people who suffered oppression under apartheid south Africa have stated that the Palestinians are treated worse.

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        Israel has a law requiring Jewish people maintain demographic majority.

        It is the definition of an ethno state.

        Not only that, but it is a removed supremacist ethno state.

        Look up how they treat the Beta Israelis.

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      War does not automatically equate to being a genocide just because people due. Otherwise, every war in history would.be genocide.

      There are Arabs & Palestinians that serve in the IDF too and have killed Palestinians. There are other Arabs in Jordan and Syria who have also gone to war against Palestine.

      You are using incindiary rhetoric to win an online argument, but your description doesn’t fit the facts.

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        You’re literally using the same arguments every genocidal government has used to justify their genocides in history.