• oakey66@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I remember how my Jewish liberal family and friends talked about Israel as a secular society and that this is what separated us from the Arab neighbors. Certainly takes this notion, digs a deep grave, and buries it. Israel is the Nazi equivalent of the 1930s/40s and they’re not even hiding it anymore.

    • PanArab@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Lebanon is a secular country home to 18 different religious sects. The people/society aren’t secular of course, but the government is made up of people from various religions.

      Egypt is a secular military dictatorship where 10% of the people (about 10 million) are Christians.

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      2 months ago

      Non-Jews are denied citizenship and thus disenfranchised. Textbook apartheid. Israel can be a Jewish state or a democracy, it cannot be both