• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t just about 20% of the Israeli population Arab?

    do they get to vote the same as Jews?

    Europeans are just projecting their guilt and instrumentalizing the very people they ethnically cleansed to do their dirty work. It’s sick.

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      1 year ago

      Yes… If you’re an Israeli citizen, you’re an Israeli citizen. There’s a sizable proportion of Arabs in Israel, particularly East Jerusalem who chose to hold Jordan citizenship rather than Israeli, and cannot vote.

      Shit, if the Palestinian Arabs who could vote, did, Bibi would likely not be in power and things may have turned out differently.

      https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/18/arab-citizens-of-israel-hold-the-key-to-next-months-election/

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        1 year ago

        Just gotta change the war machine bombing your families from the inside with hope and change. got it.

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          1 year ago

          … You don’t understand this conflict at all, do you? Bibi’s a bastard, but if eligible-to-vote Arab citizens of Israel showed up to vote against the shitheels anywhere near as well as the shitbag American Christian settler contingent, his party could not have formed a government and, since he is currently charged with corruption, his competitor parties wouldn’t have fallen in line to give him a joint government.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t really see how participating in electoral democracy fixes the problem of settler conquest. The state has lost all legitimacy in a lot of peoples eyes and I don’t blame them for not wanting any part of it.

            I don’t blame people for resisting occupation.