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Joseph's avatar

Many Israelis and Jews don't sufficiently appreciate the gravity of the fact that Israel is the only modern country since World War II that is long-term occupying a population without giving them citizenship rights. This is not a trivial thing, and it's easy to see why it's interpreted negatively by people around the world that don't understand the reality and difficulty of the situation.

There's plenty to discuss and debate about how and why the problem arose, whose fault it really is, and why it's difficult if not impossible to solve. Israel may be in an impossible situation, because if it were to unilaterally give Palestinians a state, that could likely destroy Israel, and if it were to give Palestinians Israeli citizenship that would end Israel as an ethnically Jewish state and a home for Jewish people.

But none of the above negates the extremity of the situation itself, which many people overlook, which is that Israel is the only modern democratic country occupying a population long-term with no real plan to end it. It's a serious problem that will fester and create negative dividends for years to come, in Palestinians and in the international population, if a creative solution is not somehow found.

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Cassandra2013's avatar

I STAND WITH ISRAEL FOREVER!!!

🇵🇭🇮🇱🤜🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈

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