Posted by cccp1014 on 5/24/2021 2:33:00 PM (view original):
Because Israeli is equivalent to Jewish, it is a nationality/culture as well as religion. Arabs may be Israelis but as you agreed if 75 million Chinese moved into France, it would no longer be France. Maybe in 150 years when Israel has gone through several generations of Israelis and both Arabs and Jews and others who live there love the country of Israel equally, it would no longer need to be a mostly Jewish state but Israel is but a toddler. So if Israel is the best state in the Middle East, why do you always criticize it? Why not criticize its neighbors for not being democracies and for being hate filled Sharia Law run regimes?
So I am not allowed to have opinions about you? OK....
Yep, that's where we disagree. I don't think Israeli is equivalent to Jewish, just as White or Christian is not equivalent to American, or black is not equivalent to African, or Arab is not equivalent to Palestinian.
It's OK if Israel happens to remain majority Jewish. It's not a bad thing to have a majority population. It would be bad to use immigration intentionally to maintain the majority population, or keep people out of your country just because they are not Jewish. That would be bad.
I think going off of your third sentence you might agree with me, though. If you're ok with Arabs and Jewish people sharing Israel so long as they love the country and don't discriminate against Jews, what makes you call Israel a "Jewish state?" That's my problem.
What would be the point about criticizing all of Israel's neighbors? We all agree here that they are bad. If I was in a forum where everyone agreed that Israel was bad and Arabic countries were good, I would take a more pro-Israel stance and criticize the other countries more.
No, you probably shouldn't disagree with someone about their own sexuality. That would be bad. Obviously.