Only one group in the Israel/Palestine conflict is fighting a religious war, and it’s Hamas. Hamas seized power specifically to fight a religious war, because they thought the existing Palestinian government was too secular (and then blamed that secularism on a worldwide Jewish conspiracy).
This is all in Hamas’s charter, if you don’t believe me.
Israeli Arabs have full citizenship and freedom of religion
Nobody posting here seems to care about the truth. They’d rather believe Israel is bad and Palestine is good, rather than take any time at all to learn the actual history and nuance of the situation. I doubt anyone here understands that the reason 20% of the Israeli citizenry are Arab is because their ancestors ignored Arab League propaganda, didn’t flee, and didn’t have their land stolen. Israel certainly needs to have a constitutional government that protects Arab Israelis from the vagaries of the volatile political process, and be as firm about seeking peace as they are about responding to terror attacks, but the ahistorical Palestinian propaganda successes amongst so-called liberals is disheartening. Neither side has clean hands, but the Palestinians are as much victims of their own leadership as any actions of Israel. EDIT: I recently heard a BBC World Service reporter talk about “Israeli Palestinians” and I was very surprised, as most of the Israeli Arabs I know absolutely DO NOT identify as Palestinians unless they’re also Muslim. Ethnically Christian Arab Israelis tend to have a much more complex view of the Palestinian situation, and absolutely zero interest in being part of a Palestinian state because they know they’d be a often-persecuted minority.
Only one group in the Israel/Palestine conflict is fighting a religious war, and it’s Hamas. Hamas seized power specifically to fight a religious war, because they thought the existing Palestinian government was too secular (and then blamed that secularism on a worldwide Jewish conspiracy).
This is all in Hamas’s charter, if you don’t believe me.
Israeli Arabs have full citizenship and freedom of religion
Nobody posting here seems to care about the truth. They’d rather believe Israel is bad and Palestine is good, rather than take any time at all to learn the actual history and nuance of the situation. I doubt anyone here understands that the reason 20% of the Israeli citizenry are Arab is because their ancestors ignored Arab League propaganda, didn’t flee, and didn’t have their land stolen. Israel certainly needs to have a constitutional government that protects Arab Israelis from the vagaries of the volatile political process, and be as firm about seeking peace as they are about responding to terror attacks, but the ahistorical Palestinian propaganda successes amongst so-called liberals is disheartening. Neither side has clean hands, but the Palestinians are as much victims of their own leadership as any actions of Israel. EDIT: I recently heard a BBC World Service reporter talk about “Israeli Palestinians” and I was very surprised, as most of the Israeli Arabs I know absolutely DO NOT identify as Palestinians unless they’re also Muslim. Ethnically Christian Arab Israelis tend to have a much more complex view of the Palestinian situation, and absolutely zero interest in being part of a Palestinian state because they know they’d be a often-persecuted minority.