Israel: the new face of apartheid - Discuss

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If you actually look at when violence has broken out between Jews and Arabs in the small strip of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and what set off those rounds of violence, it becomes clear that land and settlements is not the issue. The 1929 attacks on Jews, including the massacre of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron, was precipitated by a false claim that Jews were attempting to destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque - the 'proof' being that Jews were setting up benches by the Western Wall. The Second Intifada, while pre-planned, used Ariel Sharon's pre-arranged visit to the Temple Mount as an excuse. The so-called knife-intifada of 2015 was caused by the Palestinian Authority's condemnation of the growing number of Jews visiting the Temple Mount. Abbas' exact words: "“Al-Aksa is ours and so is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. They have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet. We won’t allow them to do so and we will do whatever we can to defend Jerusalem." Last year Israel installed metal detectors at the entrances to the Temple Mount after terrorists smuggled guns into the compound and used them to kill 2 Druze policemen. The PA and Arab religious leaders used the metal detectors to forment more violence, riots, and murder until the metal detectors were removed. Trump recognizes part of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel while going out of his way to leave the door open for part of Jerusalem to become the capital of Palestine, and the PA and Hamas forment riots. Jews walk on the Temple Mount, and Arab media says that 'radical settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque' even though not one Jew set foot in the Mosque. A Jew dares to say 'The Lord is my Shepard I shall not want" on the Temple Mount and Arab media accuse 'radical settlers' of carrying out nefarious "Talmudic rituals" - and the Jew is likely to be arrested just for reciting a single verse from a Psalm.

Settlements don't cause such violence. No building announcement ever set off mass riots and terror attacks the way Jews attempting to pray at the holiest site in Judiasm or asserting their rights does. There is a fundamental issue in which Jews are seen as inferior to Muslims and to Christians, and therefore when they assert that they have rights beyond what is granted to Dhimmis, such as the right to pray on the Temple Mount or at the Western Wall, for instance, that is an affront that must be corrected. It's closer to the violent reaction many southern racists had to African Americans asserting that they had the right to sit at the front of the bus or eat in the same restaurants as white people than it is a fight against oppression or loss of land other than the shame of it being the lowly Jews who control land which Muslims controlled for over 1,000 years. If it was a major European power or the US or Russia it would be one thing, but for the Jews to build their own state in the Middle East is an affront to the natural order in which Jews are at the bottom and that must be corrected.