jacobmg

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by jacobmg 16y ago
>> I have never claimed that whole of Israel has systemized racism, you are putting words into my mouth. I would have more respect for you if you said for instance yes we have these well documented problems but not everyone in Isra
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by jacobmg 16y ago
Right, you want it to be easy to just assume that an entire country has rampant racism because of some general perception of the middle east whereas I'm asking for evidence that any belief regarding racism in Israel is true. I don't h
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by jacobmg 16y ago
You are just reciting the typical myths about racism/Israel. For example you mentioned road use discrimination, instead of that being any sort of discrimination based on race/religion, it is separation based on citizenship of PA or Israel
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by jacobmg 16y ago
You are implying that Israelis vote based strongly on race. This is entirely untrue. There are Jews of many different races in the Israeli government. I suppose every country that hasn't yet had a minority president is racist?
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by jacobmg 16y ago
>> I think there is a double standard that is being applied and it is rationalized and back-propagated from a knee-jerk reaction to a perceived criticism of Israel. >> All of the sudden statistical significance and probabili
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by jacobmg 16y ago
You really are mistaken. The hearsay of some hackernews posts amounts to zero evidence, while you can verify the legal equality of races in Israel in any decent book. Unless of course, you want to grasp at straws like another poster here
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by jacobmg 16y ago
>Segregation is a real fact in every day Israeli life Are you referring to the fact that Jewish and Arab populations live mostly separate towns and cities? This isn't segregation, since this is by choice of what communities people the
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by jacobmg 16y ago
I said all races are equal under law, the Law of Return applies to ones religious status, and anyone can convert to Judaism. Besides immigration criteria does not effect discrimination of individuals as citizens since it's merely a select
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by jacobmg 16y ago
No, everything claimed is easy to verify. Races aren't segregated, racism isn't taught (as in, it's not part of the curriculum.) All races are equal under Israeli law. Your education on this subject had to have been seriously skewed to thin
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by jacobmg 16y ago
It is easy to draw intuitive statistical conclusions in a small town ; you bet if there weren't usually race based violence in a small town, that if you saw 4-5 incidents in a short period of time, there would be very few non-racism based
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by jacobmg 16y ago
PBS is a better fit to be compared to BBC. You can find low-brow entertainment based news in the UK and every other country with a free media. It's not like you can't access quality news in the US and Al Jazeera has to swoop in and save the
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by jacobmg 16y ago
>Do you think Americans are that stupid that they won't see antisemitism? Do you think we're little children who can't think for ourselves? Well that's the thing, perhaps those who have had the opportunity to carry Al Jazeera decided no
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by jacobmg 16y ago
Not all criticism of Israel is anti-Jewish, but some can be. Just because someone claims an anti-Israel group is anti-Jewish, don't assume that they would whitewash all Israel critics as anti-Jewish.
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by jacobmg 16y ago
Just an American here, but there is no racial segregation or systematized racism of any kind in Israel. 'Racism' and 'Apartheid' are just thrown around carelessly at Israel by some critics.
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by jacobmg 16y ago
> Are you implying that anyone criticizing Israel should be automatically discarded on the basis of intolerance? You don't seem to have listened. It wasn't about that one article, it was about their coverage of the issue, which is ske
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by jacobmg 16y ago
Here's why: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/ "Israel: The ugly truth", "A week of racism in Israel", "An education in inequality" Notice something out of proportion here? I know many people are keen to jump on the "Al Jazeera is grea
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by jacobmg 16y ago
The latter or incompetence or they just don't care enough about it to really investigate a viable solution (most probable.) Their technical reasons are invalid after all, so something is wrong, how much is the question.
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by jacobmg 16y ago
Perhaps this explains one of the most ridiculous posts I've seen from a corporate blog in a long time? http://blog.netflix.com/2009/06/closed-captions-and-subtitle... Essentially them complaining it will take a year to implement closed-
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by jacobmg 16y ago
> blockades are stifling, putting fences through people's land is stifling. Are you really prepared to argue otherwise? I never argued otherwise. It can be argued that Israel doesn't have a choice, for the reasons of self defense, but t
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by jacobmg 16y ago
Because you side against the blockade because you either don't believe the Israeli reasons why the risk of not blockading are serious enough to warrant something as harsh as a blockade, or you just don't care about the consequences for the
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by jacobmg 16y ago
He didn't say the word evil, but he characterized Israel as evil, which is just as bad. >he stated that Israel has taken actions to stifle Palestine. That is an objective fact... False, saying Israel takes actions to stifle the Pa
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by jacobmg 16y ago
That is trolling. All you're doing is reciting your standard "Israel is evil occupier" routine typical of someone of a certain political bias. No sources or added incite. It is however a fact, that since a high percentage of suicide bombers