Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: What REALLY Happened in Gaza is SHOCKING & No One's Allowed to Talk About it [View all]Beastly Boy
(12,431 posts)What your numbers show is that a minority of Jewish Israelis expressing their views on annexing the West Bank without equal rights for Palestinians.
This leaves out two rather significant groups out of your consideration:
1. The majority of Jewish Israelis who do not express these views.
2. The majority of non-Jewish Israelis who do not express these views.
Make it three:
3. The Palestinian Israelis with equal rights. This group is significant because it shows the reality, not the sentiment of a minority of the majority of Israelis, of the Palestinians living in Israel. And they make up nearly a third of all Israelis. It shows that your horror over a hypothetical does not reflect the reality of Palestinians in Israel. Moreover, compared to the horrors of Palestinians all over the Arab world, whose reality is the absence of equal rights, your focus on the hypothetical is rather telling. For some reason, there is a reality that you are not horrified of nearly as strongly as an expression of an equivalent, but a merely hypothetical sentiment among Israeli Jews... Did I mention that you are laser focused on the opinions of a minority of Israeli Jews and paying no attention to any other statistics?
Time to check your horror meter. It is malfunctioning. Badly.
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