1. arabs make less than 21% of israel citizen (1).
2. The 1985 amendment 9 to Israel basic law essentially made arab representation into knesset difficult and at the mercy of Israeli Central Elections Committee (2).
3. Arabs were racially marginalized from military opportunity and responsibility (3).
4. As an effect of point (3.), those who did not serve in the army had less access than other citizens to social and economic benefits for which military service was a prerequisite or an advantage, such as housing, and new-household subsidies (4).
5. Their nativity and birth rights were unequal with their jew nation mates. for example, Jew from any country can move to Israel but a Palestinian refugee, with a valid claim to property in Israel, cannot (5).
6. Arabs who marries Israeli are treated differrently by law through an amendment of the Israel's Citizenship Law (6).
7. The 1996 "Master Plan for the Northern Areas of Israel," which listed as priority goals increasing the Galilee's Jewish population and blocking the territorial contiguity of Arab towns." is racially discriminatory, so much so that the Supreme Court ruled that omitting Arab towns from specific government social and economic plans is discriminatory (4).
8. 8 of 9 ex arab-knesset are under investigation, held in custody or has been beaten and harrased by israeli forces (7).
ps : whenever writing future argument, kindly note that druze are not arabs and this is correct under israel laws as well ss the druze on belief system
References:
1. CBS (in Hebrew). Retrieved from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2501/is_1_23/ai_76560794/pg_4
2. "CBSi". Retrieved from the https://www.knesset.gov.il/description/eng/eng_mimshal_yesod2.htm#2
3. "Arab Israelis". Retrieved from http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2001/8/Arab%20Israelis
4. Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs. "Israel and the occupied territories". 2001-2009.state.gov Retrieved from https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41723.htm
5. Yousef Munayyer (23 May 2012). "Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal". The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/opinion/not-all-israeli-citizens-are-equal.html?_r=0
6. "Human Rights Issues for the Palestinian Population". Retrieved from https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/hrpa.html
7. Silencing Dissent Report" . Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20070927214122/http://www.arabhra.org/publications/reports/PDF/SilencingDissentFinal.pdf#search=%22arab%20knesset%20silencing%20dissent%22
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Okay, how many Jews make Palestinian citizens? And generally every other point as it comes to Jews in Palestine.
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If you think IDF is anti-Arabic, you should probably talk to the Arab members of Knesset to intervene:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_members_of_the_Knesset
At the same time, thousands of Arab soldiers of IDF may dispute this claim in the first place.
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Few people with a decent job and perspectives are willing to go and die in human wave attacks in an offensive war.
We see this pattern in #Russia all the time — for decades everyone was wondering "why don't they build normal roads, houses and sewage" in these derelict towns in Siberia.
The answer is obvious today — it was not exclusively neglect and corruption, but a policy to prevent building up a middle class. Because independent income offers people a choice, and as a dictator you need a resource of people from whom the choice has been taken away,m when you want to go go war.
Right now in Russia vast majority of people signing up for a contract do it exclusively for money, and it's almost exclusively people from small towns and rural areas, who had been living on miserable state benefits and cash loans for years. War in #Ukraine for them is a life chance: they are likely to die, but even if they do their family receives money they were unlikely to ever see in their life. That's the new social contract in Russia.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/20...
I'm just reading about #Palestine thriving IT sector, with #Gaza hosting a number of IT outsourcing hubs, pumped with money by US and #Israel companies. All that been scrapped on the morning of 7 October, and it's also logical because #Hamas doesn't need educated youth with decent income in Gaza — they won't have any reason to go and blow themselves up on bus stops. For that you need people from whom everything has been taken away...
If #Brexit supporters wanted to raise an actual valid criticism of European Union, instead of the worn and essentially false “banana curvature” stories, there’s a perfect example in Directive 2001/83/EC. It’s a important directive on medical efficacy evidencing standards that, foundational to all modern medicine. And yet, it’s contaminated by 100% pseudo-scientific nonsense, lobbied by a few influential manufacturers from France and Germany:
(21) Having regard to the particular characteristics of these homeopathic medicinal products, such as the very low level of active principles they contain and the difficulty of applying to them the conventional statistical methods relating to clinical trials, it is desirable to provide a special, simplified registration procedure for those homeopathic medicinal products which are placed on the market without therapeutic indications in a pharmaceutical form and dosage which do not present a risk for the patient.
Read: because medical efficacy of pure water and sugar sold as “homeopathic remedies” is impossible to demonstrate, we just allow it without any evidence.
The next section makes a nod to the German companies who are into #antroposophy business, a similar sectarian movement:
(22) The anthroposophic medicinal products described in an official pharmacopoeia and prepared by a homeopathic method are to be treated, as regards registration and marketing authorization, in the same way as homeopathic medicinal products.
Of course, Brexit supporters did not raise this argument as part of their criticism of EU. Same goes for anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists believing EU is at the mercy of omnipotent lobby groups who make people wear cough masks in the breaks between conducting black masses under Satan’s and Bill Gates’ portraits.
Why? Because #homeopathy is also an important pseudo-scientific sector of business in the UK and in the “organic”, “natural” and the whole pseudo-scientific market and you don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Fortunately, NHS kicked homeopaths from the medicine quite a while ago.
Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32001L0083
🇵🇱 Jeśli przemawia do was narracja PiS o “wyprzedaży majątku narodowego”, to ja tylko przypomnę, że w 2010 roku na liście Spółek Skarbu Państwa były tak strategiczne przedsiębiorstwa jak Fabryka Octu i Musztardy w Parczewie czy Fabryka Drutu w Gliwicach.
Mój artykuł z 2010 roku gdzie analizowałem opublikowaną przez nieistniejące już Ministerstwo Skarbu Państwa listę 200 takich spółek przygotowanych wówczas do prywatyzacji:
https://echelon.pl/pastwowa-fabryka-octu-i-musztardy.html
Zabawne, że wówczas przeciwko prywatyzacji tych klejnotów koronnych protestowało… SLD, które używało wówczas narracji o “rodowych srebrach”. Dzisiaj o “srebrach rodowych” mówią politycy PiS na łamach TVP:
Faktem jest, że część polskiej prywatyzacji była przeprowadzona w sposób absolutnie sprzeczny z polskim interesem państwowym i ja wymieniłbym tutaj przede wszystkim prywatyzację TPSA, w ramach której francuskiemu Orange sprzedano spółkę wraz z całą infrastrukturą telekomunikacyjną Polski. Z drugiej jednak strony kto pamięta TPSA z 2000 roku ten wie, że wówczas był to jeden wielki skansen peerelowskiej kultury pracy i zarządzania, gdzie na kultową “parę” (czyli miedziany kabel-skrętkę) czekało się oficjalnie latami bo na każdym szczeblu państwowego przedsiębiorstwa oczekiwano łapówek. Patrząc na to co się obecnie dzieje w PLL LOT czy w Kompanii Węglowej trudno oprzeć się wrażeniu, że te muzea nadal istnieją i są absolutnie niereformowalne…
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Sorry, what this is about?
Once again a massive fire at military airport "Chkalovsky" near Moscow #Russia, last night around 04:00 Moscow time. Last week #Ukraine hinted that saboteurs planted explosives that destroyed two airplanes and one helicopter at the same place.
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"And yes, both Poles and Ukrainians culturally have a tendency for playing zero-sum games."
Can confirm: Greet a stranger on the street in either country and he'll look at you wondering what the catch is.
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Haha, that's 100% true — overall level of social distrust is relatively high in Eastern Europe, although I heard many Ukrainians and Russians praising Poland for "everyone is smiling here" attitude :) I don't see it when coming from UK to PL, but that's probably matter of the baseline which is much higher in the UK in terms of smiling. But I can understand that because when I was going to Russia there was a stark contrast as you went to a shop and if you said "hello" or — God forbid! — smiled, everyone looked at you as you were high or stupid 😁
Overview of the recent #Turkey #speleo rescue operation from -1000 m depth
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/american-cave-rescue-mission-turkey
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I *very* much do enjoy it, I don't think I've enjoyed any beer like this before 😁
After 14 hours underground in Gouffre Berger #France my Garmin told me to rest 94 hours, which I'm duly following 😁 #speleo #caving
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In no war ecology has been too much of a concern, unfortunately 🤷♂️ Saddam Hussein has put hundreds of oil rigs in Quatar on fire for decades, Russians blew up Kakhovka dam and a dozen of chemical factories in Ukraine. But Ukrainian wording of "establishing control" is a bit of a stretch because they haven't left any of their personnel there — the idea of "control" is more of Russians being unable to control them and use for their military purposes.
#Ukraine regains control of strategic Black Sea oil rigs and surveillance platforms "Boyko towers"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/...
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Электрон в атоме самая лёгкая частица, а линуксовый “Электрон” это п..ц какой бегемот…
I have just noticed that 🤍 Internet Archive🤍 has uploaded two classic works on #Marxism and #USSR that were previously of little availability.
Leszek Kołakowski, “Main Currents of Marxism” (1976) is an encyclopedia of Marxism in three volumes (the English edition joins them in a single book). The first two discuss in great detail the history of socialist and communist movements, including Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism etc and TBH they are a bit too Biblical for me, but the third volume in the first place looks at their practical outcome and intellectual decay. If you were ever wondering whether the Soviet system was an anomaly or a correct derivative of Marxism-Leninism, Kołakowski discusses that in great detail.https://archive.org/details/maincurrentsofma0000koak
Pawel H. Dembinsky “The logic of the planned economy : the seeds of the collapse” (1991) is an evidence-based analysis of the Soviet economy from both economical and ideological point of view. If you are interested in the practical peculiarities of the Soviet economy and how it was built on top of ideology, this is the book to start (and it’s not too long). https://archive.org/details/logicofplannedec0000demb/mode/1up
If you are socialist, anarchist or generally left-leaning person, you should be reading these books in the first place. These are not #socialism bashing rants in any way: quite the opposite, these books offer a clear distinction between social-democratic movements which made the EU what it is today, and the socialist-revolutionary ones which made USSR what it was, and what #Russia is today. Most importantly, they precisely explain how each of these happened and offer a practical guidance on where to draw a clear moral border to avoid finding yourself in the place where Stalinists ultimately found themselves murdering millions of people because “you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs”.
After reading tons of Marxist literature, I can testify these books have one huge advantage over many Western publications: they were written by people who saw Soviet Marxism-Leninism in real-life. Where many Western writers had read Soviet Constitution and took it at face value, these guys saw it in action, thus sparing you embarrassingly naive statements such as “but it guaranteed freedom of speech!” or “but at least they gave away apartments for free!”.
No, any guarantee written on paper is worthless if you are prohibited from leaving not only your country but even your own village and are practically property of the state, which is the nuance that usually escaped the attention of well-fed socialist philosophers in Great Britain, France or USA.
Interestingly, in #France the “Main Currents of #Marxism” was published already in 1978… but only the first two volumes were translated into French out of the total three. Kołakowski later wrote that this was because “the third volume would provoke such an outrage among French Leftists that the publishers were afraid to risk it.” I checked, and it’s true, the third volume is neither published nor even mentioned by French editor:
https://www.fayard.fr/sciences-humaines/histoire-du-marxisme-9782213018980
George Orwell in an interview, before he join the republic forces in the Spanish civil war in 1936:I have come to Spain to fight fascism! Afterall, there are not such a terrific lot of fascists in the world, so if we each shot one of them...
https://hat-eine.entenbru.st/files/b544dd90-0fcb-48d9-b91e-f64aac3619a2
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And then he came to Spain, saw the NKVD in action and became one of the most prominent anti-Soviet activists…
I have just noticed that 🤍 Internet Archive🤍 has uploaded two classic works on #Marxism and #USSR that were previously of little availability.
Leszek Kołakowski, “Main Currents of Marxism” (1976) is an encyclopedia of Marxism in three volumes (the English edition joins them in a single book). The first two discuss in great detail the history of socialist and communist movements, including Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism etc and TBH they are a bit too Biblical for me, but the third volume in the first place looks at their practical outcome and intellectual decay. If you were ever wondering whether the Soviet system was an anomaly or a correct derivative of Marxism-Leninism, Kołakowski discusses that in great detail.https://archive.org/details/maincurrentsofma0000koak
Pawel H. Dembinsky “The logic of the planned economy : the seeds of the collapse” (1991) is an evidence-based analysis of the Soviet economy from both economical and ideological point of view. If you are interested in the practical peculiarities of the Soviet economy and how it was built on top of ideology, this is the book to start (and it’s not too long). https://archive.org/details/logicofplannedec0000demb/mode/1up
If you are socialist, anarchist or generally left-leaning person, you should be reading these books in the first place. These are not #socialism bashing rants in any way: quite the opposite, these books offer a clear distinction between social-democratic movements which made the EU what it is today, and the socialist-revolutionary ones which made USSR what it was, and what #Russia is today. Most importantly, they precisely explain how each of these happened and offer a practical guidance on where to draw a clear moral border to avoid finding yourself in the place where Stalinists ultimately found themselves murdering millions of people because “you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs”.
After reading tons of Marxist literature, I can testify these books have one huge advantage over many Western publications: they were written by people who saw Soviet Marxism-Leninism in real-life. Where many Western writers had read Soviet Constitution and took it at face value, these guys saw it in action, thus sparing you embarrassingly naive statements such as “but it guaranteed freedom of speech!” or “but at least they gave away apartments for free!”.
No, any guarantee written on paper is worthless if you are prohibited from leaving not only your country but even your own village and are practically property of the state, which is the nuance that usually escaped the attention of well-fed socialist philosophers in Great Britain, France or USA.