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> Israel shows every day that they are willing and able to live closely with the Palestinians who accept their right to exist and aren't trying to murder their families, without using apartheid-like systems of control

This is very much not the case in the West Bank where expropriation and colonisation of Palestinian land by Israeli settlers continue, under the watchful eye of the Israeli army.

The Israeli state has done it's best to ensure that there can be no viable Palestinian state, condemning millions of Palestinians to eternal military occupation and second class status in their own homeland.

Any claim that Israel is acting in good faith towards Palestinians is very much undermined by these facts.

>>biorac+(OP)
West Bank settlers are overtly funded by right-wing christian evangelists from the U.S.

The Likud turns a blind eye because its basically a free military. Moreover, it provides a military buffer between Israel's mainland population and much of the radicalized West Bank population.

>>biorac+(OP)
I agree that the actions in the occupied territories are oppressive and terrible. I was referring to the actions within Israel itself, towards Israeli Arab Citizens. Which shows that the oppressive actions is not based on ethnicity or religion, it's based on fear.

>>drc500+m6
... and an opportunistic land-grab on a huge scale at the expense of Palestinians.

>>drc500+m6
Thing is, that fear is taught in schools, a large part if not most of the Israeli population are too young to remember the holocaust, so this is propagation of fear on a national scale, and to what end?

Additional, yes there are discriminatory laws within Israel, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_citizenship_law

And https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/27/israeli-protests-ca...

>>drc500+m6
Ethnicity and nationality is not the same thing. Oppressive actions can easily be between two ethnically similar, but nationally different groups.