The new apartheid

[luzribeiro]

Comments

[a_new_machine]

It irks me so much that "anti-Zionist" has been, as a term, co-opted by some of the more virulent anti-Semites as a code/cover word for their anti-Semitism. The idea that a uniquely Jewish state must exist in that particular place, consequences for others be damned, is just as blameworthy in creating this situation as the idea that no Jewish state can be tolerated. But that's exactly why the one-state solution (which, clearly, would have to lose its Jewish character or else be a simple re-naming of the current apartheid problem) is seen as anti-Semitic.

[a_new_machine]

Yeah, that's the point I was trying to make. The hard-line stances of both sides' extremes are equally detrimental, but (IMO anyway) only the Palestinian hard-liners seem to get much in the way of blame, at least in the mainstream, when both are equally blameworthy.

[peristaltor]

I wholeheartedly agree.

[htpcl]

> "push them into the sea"

More like, "nuke'm from orbit".

[rimpala]

I suddenly started imagining what kind of situation we would have if the Palestinians began building underwater cities.

[rimpala]

lol oh yeah, better not let them settle anywhere nice down there

...oh wait...

they mean the DEAD SEA don't they? Well at least they'll have plenty of table salt.

[rimpala]

not bottom, that goes against certain laws of physics. Think Waterworld, with tabbouleh and hummus