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Both of these statements are just wrong.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Balfour-Declaration
Zionism really kicked off in popularity with the Balfour declaration which was an attempt by Britain to sway Jews everywhere to be sympathetic towards British interests. Zionists we’re upset at the lack of action in the subsequent years by the British and began smuggling Jewish settlers into the mandate, causing tensions with the local Palestinian Muslims, Christian’s and, to a lesser extent, Jews.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/gallery/2023/5/15/ethnic-cleansing-by-zionists-in-palestine
This is how the foundation of the state of Israel started. When the UN voted to establish Israel they gave a near 50/50 land split when Jews were less than 25% of the total population and Palestinians made up more than 60%. People were clearly mad and the events of the Nakba occurred.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/
Since Israel’s domination of the land and both Palestinian Territories, Israel has increasingly gone with right wing governments like the current one in power, that has not all that slowly, nor all that suddenly, codified laws that keeps Palestinians as an underclass even within the borders of Israel. It’s become an apartheid state in many ways.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/11/702264118/netanyahu-says-israel-is-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people-and-them-alone
If you read up on the history of Bibi Netanyahu, who is still currently in power and has been for around 20 years, you will find he’s never really been shy of hiding his intentions to make Israel a state for just Jews.
None of your links rebut any of my claims.
Third link:
Can you read? It’s the 4th and 5th paragraph.
Yeah. Can you?
Amnesty international has created a logical fallacy in claiming that Israel is apartheid. For that claim to be true they are assuming that all Palestinians in the occupied territories are somehow disenfranchised subjects of the Israeli government.
If that logic were true, then we would have had to have said the same thing about Iraqis when the United States occupied Iraq. But of course that's a ludicrous claim. The United States didn't suddenly become an apartheid nation just because we conquered enemy territory.
Just because a territory is under military occupation does not mean that the people in those territories are citizens in waiting.
On the other hand, the Muslim Arab and ethnic Palestinians who ARE citizens of Israel have all the same rights and privileges as Jewish citizens of Israel.
First thing: the current leader of Israel has explicitly stated Israel is a state for Jews
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/11/702264118/netanyahu-says-israel-is-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people-and-them-alone
How is the current PM of Israel explicitly stating the government is just for Jews not disenfranchisement?
Second thing: there’s a difference between formal citizenship and full citizenship
https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/israel-as-an-ethnic-democracy-palestinian-citizens-and-the-fight-for-equal-rights
The fact that there is a difference precludes equality.
Think of it like this: when Trump was President he could have come out and said that the United States was a nation for Christians alone.
He could say it. He could get applause for it. But that wouldn't make it true.
In law school I took an Israel-US comparative law class. Israel doesn't have a constitution, but they do have Basic Laws which serve the same purpose. Among those laws are guarantees of equal protection regardless of religion.
So, think Israel's PM as an Israeli Trump. He's a dangerous, opening corrupt zealot, but he had a lot of internal opposition, and his words are not law.