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At least I'm pretty sure that no in the west is going to jail for advocating against genocide in Sudan, and neither Sudan nor UAE is run by western immigrants which definitely changes the optics.
Ah the Western immigrants! Of course, slowly bit by bit the hate against the Jews always ends up showing up..
Quick history refreshers:
there were always Jews in Palestine (historically just a synonym of Israel), there were even Jews there before there were any Arabs!
more Israelis descend from Jews expelled from Arab countries after the WWII (a genocide we tend to forget) than from Jews who survived genocide in Europe, so yeah, most Israelis are and always have been Middle eastern.
20% of Israelis are even Arab, surprise. It's a multicultural state.
PS: but should we fear Middle eastern migrants becoming too influential in our politics, then? Or migrants in general?
Ethnicity is no shield for crimes against humanity. It's no shield or justification for pursuing a final solution against millions of people in response to an uprising in the largest ghetto they control.
The massacre, kidnapping and raping of civilians is not an uprising. Calling it that is justifying it and justifying violence is always self defeating. People like you are part of the problem.
Your account does not seem authentic.
But I'm authentically blocking yours
Playing victim are you? Typical.
How long do you have to live in the west until you become western? Jews definitely had a large degree of separation from the Christian majority populations, but it still clearly had an impact on their way of thinking, even if not necessarily on their genetic makeup.
My dear, if you read my comment you would know I don't deny that Jews who survived the Holocaust in Europe were Westerners. They simply don't make up the majority of the population in Israel. Most Israelis are middle eastern of Middle eastern descent, even if you count the descendants of the European migrants as western.. which is a bit silly since they're born and raised in Israel for a few generations in the meantime.
So yeah, it's quite ignorant and quite racist to suggest that Israel is run by western migrants.