Troops fired warning shots, and direct fire in some cases, at the suspects who approached the area. There are several Lebanese people dead and wounded in the incidents. Four Hezbollah operatives were also detained today.
Trying to apply american racism to israeli demographics may be one of the quickest ways to show your ignorance on the topic.
Wdym Israelis are very racist on average so it does make a lot of sense. You cant surivive the mandatory time in the IDF without at least pretending to be racist.
Against my better judgement, I’ll take a crack at this.
American racism, as displayed in the Family Guy meme, is based on skin color. In Israel/Palestine, racism is not based on skin color. Jews aren’t all light skinned, and Arabs aren’t all dark skinned.
There is a lot of racism by white European ( Ashkenazi) Jews against North African, Ethiopan, West Asian and Indian Jews in Israel.
Wait until you find out how Bedouins in the Negev treat Bedouins with African ancestors.
Yep - a lot of westerners fail to understand that a majority of Israelis have middle-eastern or north-African ancestry, even if excluding the large arab Israeli demographic. Depicting the people of Israel as a monolith is a very crude oversimplification
Their presidents and people of power all have Ashkenazi roots
That is simply incorrect. I suggest that you educate yourself further on the topic and refrain from making similarly uninformed statements on related topics in the future.
Here is the wikipedia page of all current members of knesset:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_twenty-fifth_Knesset
Going from the top of the list of current knesset members, we have Likud party members (the current ruling party).
No. 4 on the list is Amir Ohana, current speaker of the Knesset. He is the child of two moroccan jews, and also happens to be gay.
No. 7 Shlomo Karhi, minister of Communications, Tunisian heritage.
No. 8 David Bitan - born in Morocco.
Q.E.D, feel free to find more examples on your own, there are plenty.
Bro im from there and youre sending me links
Knesset has 0 power in this state. This state is a settler colonial authoritarian terrorist state that has zero democracy. The terrorist state of Israel has none of the pillars of democracy.
I think the sentiment is the same and correctly enough portrayed in the meme to get it across. Point being, it’s an arbitrary line.
Also, is America uniquely racist, or just the most prominent because extra guns/cops and a larger news presence?
I would say that demographic tensions in the US, colloquially “american racism” primarily have a particular flavour - namely focusing on skin colour. In other parts of the world demographic tensions come in many other forms. Between Europeans for instance it is more often cultural and religious tensions (secular/atheist vs religious, protestant vs catholic, germanic vs latin etc).
For each region and people these sorts of tensions tend to have a basis in different historic catalysts. In Israel for instance, there are jewish-arab tensions with a long and complicated history, interreligious tensions (christians - muslims - religious jews - secular/atheist), intra-jewish ethnic tensions (mizrahi-sephardim-ashkenazi) and many others. Similar tensions can be found in other countries in the middle east.
The problem with applying the american lens to these other areas is that it will miss important aspects and risks exacerbating problems by applying inappropriate remedies.
israeli demographics
I guess since South Lebanon is defacto occupied that means Lebanese people are Israelis now.
And here I thought “ceasefire” meant that everyone had to, you know, cease their firing?
Surprise!
