Shimon HaTzadik, there's an entire gravesite to him which was not surrounded by any buildings prior to Jews building there in the Ottoman era.
You are of course educated on this issue right?
You do know that Israeli courts have had the residents back since 1967 and even assisted in a compromise which included reduced rent to the owners (Ottoman records are quite clear on it) and a stronger renter safety than normal, right?
You do know that the residents accepted this compromise in the 80s but were called back by the PLO which convinced them to go back on it, right?
And that despite that Israeli courts continued to hold their hand over the issue despite the owners insisting on action for 40 years, right?
Of course you know all that.
There is more than one form of abuse. Israel merely employs a different variety than Putin--domestically, that is. One common factor in their military operations is disproportionate use of violence.
Israel dropped thousands of bombs on Gaza last year.
Yet only 128 civilians (as per UN) died.
Why? Because of warning leaflets, calls and SMS warning the population that an attack would take place giving them time to evacuate.
So stop crying your crocodile tears, literally no other country does this.
This seems to amount to saying, "Because other countries also do wrong, Israel should be able to get away with it."
In the Arab-Israeli conflict about 27.000 people have died,
combined from both sides since 1948.
In West Papua 100.000–500.000 people have died, mostly on the Papuan side since 1963.
In the Columbian conflict 221.000 people have died since 1964.
In the Syrian civil war 500.000–606.000 people have died since 2011.
In Yemen 377.000 people have died since 2011.
In the Somali civil war 506.000 people have died since 1991.
In Darfur 301.000 people have died since 2003.
In Iraq 328.000–1.215.000 people have died since 2003.
Due to Boko Haram attacks 358.000 people have died since 2009.
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And I'm not sure why UN resolutions would bother Israel when it keeps proceeding as usual despite them. Perhaps the argument of unfair focus on Israel would hold more weight if violating the resolutions resulted in any substantial consequences for the country.
Perhaps UN resolutions had more weight if the world concentrated on far bigger and bloodier conflicts first instead of some tiny conflict.
Btw the Ukraine invasion is almost half way to the 27.000 deaths of the Israeli-Arab conflict in a bit over a week.
But hey facts are really annoying.
The majority of the Islamic world is by no means a desirable model of how to treat minorities, unless you consider countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia to be any kind of useful yardstick for minority rights.
I don't care.
Pro-Palestinians want to turn Israel into an Arab-majority country and the odds that it would be the unusual Arab country which doesn't persecute its non-Arab population are next to zero.
Also, there are multiple incidents that clearly show that a lot of Palestinians in Israel don't really have equal rights or equal safety to Israelis.
Like what?
Btw safety is indeed different because Arab majority cities have in the past opted for no Israeli police due to resentment towards the police.
This resulted in Arab majority cities to be policed by Arab clans.
They have since changed their opinion. I wonder why.
Your response doesn't surprise me because it provides another example of why religious glorification of Israel sometimes ends up feeding into apologetics for its human rights violations. Whether Islamic or Jewish, the concept of a "holy land" or a state specifically intended for a certain religious or ethnic group, and the religious and political zeal that sometimes accompanies such a belief, strikes me as one of the biggest contributors to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Good luck disproving facts.
