Israel introduces 'Palestinian only' bus lines, following complaints from Jewish settlers

[yeats]

Comments

[ladypolitik]

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[keeni84]

comments i'd love to read: context and insight from people better informed about this than i am.
stuff i am not here for: the usual bullshit that happens in these posts.

Yes, thank you.

Also: What the fuck.

[underlankers]

This is why democracy cannot survive when it is rooted in a particular ethnicity and/or religion. At some point the particular ethnicity/religion always assumes a gravitational power over that of the state's own interests. Israel has at some point to decide if it's a democracy or a Jewish state, it will not survive the 21st Century as both at once.

[rkt]

Israel has at some point to decide if it's a democracy or a Jewish state, it will not survive the 21st Century as both at once.

comment is perfect.

[tcpip]

A couple of examples along this line of thinking: Noam Chomsky and Avraham Burg

e.g.,

"The Zionist dream is to construct a state which is as Jewish as England is English and France is French. At the same time, this state is to be a democracy on the Western model. Evidently, these goals are incompatible. Citizens of France are French, but citizens of the Jewish state may be non-Jews, either by ethnic or religious origin or simply by choice [...] To the extent that Israel is a Jewish State it cannot be a democratic state".

- Noam Chomsky, Forward to, The Arabs in Israel, Adalah, Legal Violations of Arab Minority Rights in Israel, 1998, p. 9

and Avraham Burg, "The end of Zionism Israel must shed its illusions and choose between racist oppression and democracy"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/sep/15/comment

Especially the Burg article. I remember reading in a plane flight in the IHT when it was published... it made the flight quite interesting.

[rkt]

thank you for the article

[kynical]

Color me not surprised given that Israel is committed to regressing.

[tabaqui]

Separate but equal....that always goes over well.

[sio]

MTFE.

[astridmyrna]

Eeyup.

[wrestlingdog]

Basically.