JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

  • @Argonne
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    Israel is definitely not an ethnostate. It has 20% Arabs. How many Jews does Palestine have?

    • @[email protected]
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      136 months ago

      Calling a state an Ethnostate doesn’t mean you’re saying the population is entirely of one ethnicity. It means one ethnicity is given a privileged status above all others.

      Israel was founded when Zionists purged Palestinians from their homes and forced them into Gaza and the West Bank in order to create a Jewish majority state. That makes Israel an ethnostate by definition.

        • @[email protected]
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          116 months ago

          Ahh I see. So because Zionists haven’t been able to successfully cleanse all Palestinians from the region, Israel doesn’t count as an ethnostate. Don’t worry though because by God they’re still trying their damndest to make it happen no matter how many thousands of children they have to murder.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness
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          106 months ago

          Not necessarily. There are laws that explicitly and implicitly discriminate against Arab Israelis.

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          46 months ago

          No they don’t, many surviving people who suffered oppression under apartheid south Africa have stated that the Palestinians are treated worse.

    • @[email protected]
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      Israel has a law requiring Jewish people maintain demographic majority.

      It is the definition of an ethno state.

      Not only that, but it is a removed supremacist ethno state.

      Look up how they treat the Beta Israelis.