Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
You talk about apartheid but in reality this is just not true. There are many Israeli Arabs in the Knesset, also soldiers and police force. Arab citizens get full legal rights.

Four decades later, the increasingly complex world of Israel's system of classification deems Said Rhateb to be a resident of the West Bank - somewhere he has never lived - and an illegal alien for living in the home in which he was born, inside the Jerusalem boundary. Jerusalem's council forces Rhateb to pay substantial property taxes on his house but that does not give him the right to live in it, and he is periodically arrested for doing so. Rhateb's children have been thrown out of their Jerusalem school, he cannot register a car in his name - or rather he can, but only one with Palestinian number plates, which means he cannot drive it to his home because only Israeli-registered cars are allowed within Jerusalem - and he needs a pass to visit the centre of the city. The army grants him about four a year.
There is more. If Rhateb is not legally resident in his own home, then he is defined as an "absentee" who has abandoned his property. Under Israeli law, it now belongs to the state or, more particularly, its Jewish citizens. "They sent papers that said we cannot sell the land or develop it because we do not own the land. It belongs to the state," he says. "Any time they want to confiscate it, they can, because they say we are absentees even though we are living in the house."

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Also. If a bunch of militant Muslim immigrants started migrating to Britain in 1880 with the stated intention of setting up a Muslim state and set up terrorist groups to kill and threaten the natives while trying to expand over as big an area as possible, with ongoing killings etc., how do you think the natives would react? That's why some Palestinians killed some Jews pre-1948.