>>38313The kind of parallels you're talking about could be made between any country in history that ever subjugated a minority. In other words you're painting with such a broad brush it's meaningless, like saying Hitler and Netanyahu both had two eyeballs. Not to mention lazy. Moral of the story, don't believe every meme you read.
>forming an apartheid that would lead to anti-occupation resistance fightersHuh? I can't give you a step-by-step of the history of Zionism right now but maybe take a gander at the Wiki page. There are plenty of valid arguments against how things played out from Hertzl to 1948 but what you're saying is just not a thing.
>>38315A) Apartheid is specific to South Africa and, again, has few parallels to the situation in Israel and Occupied Palestine. Starting with Jews being the majority and Palestinians the minority, which was not the case with whites and blacks in SA, and down from there.
B) He's a corrupt warmongering asshole like the rest of Likud and the Israeli right but no, he didn't. He used his majority on the Knesset to weaken their supreme court in the hope of slithering out from his own legal predicament. Trump did the same here, fwiw and either way it's irrelevant to what's going on in Gaza.
C) Israel has a free press, period. I read Haaretz which has been openly critical of the occupation of Palestine and Likud hawks like Sharon and Netanyahu for decades. They're center left; there are openly anti-Zionist media outlets who operate in Israel. That said, compared to the USA they can be repressive, because we're almost unique on earth in terms of press freedom; most of Europe is more similar to Israel than us, and Asia (especially the Middle East) and Africa don't come close. And reporters get arrested and blown up in war zones all the time (again, including in the USA) but it's not Israeli policy. I'm not trying to "whatabout", just saying "lack of free press" is bullshit.
>they gather around to watch their religious leaders mutilate a baby’s genitalsJesus, talk about burying the lede... I don't believe every critic of Israel is an anti-Semite but an awful lot of them are. Just saying.
Anyway most male babies here in the US — Christians and atheists as well as Muslims and Jews — are circumcized and have been as a part of basic natal care for several generations. Jews hardly own the franchise, though they do ritualize it, sort of like most cultures ritualize the breaking of the female hymen with a religious ritual called "marriage."
Fun fact: The dick sucking part is only performed by a tiny, fundamentalist sect (Satmar Chassidim, less than 100k followers) who FTR are more anti-Zionist than you. It's like denigrating Christians because Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions.
Which is par for the course with your arguments. Goes back to what I was saying about the BDS/Anti-Israeli crowd — they're hypocritical, flimsy, trendy and thus impotent. Israel can safely concentrate on destroying Hamas and IJ and you guys can pose with your kefayas on tiktok using your Chinese phones and feel like you've done something good for the world.
