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MeatsimPD t1_jbwkjek wrote

Reply to comment by Familiar_Pea_9345 in 250,000 protesters take to the streets against regime change| Israel by LengthExact

I mean "it's their ancestorial homeland" doesn't much anything. A Kingdom of Israel existed in the 700s BC sure but plenty of other people of other ethnic backgrounds lived and settled in this area before during and after the period that was dominated by people of the Jewish faith. Why don't they have a claim to the area as well as their own ancestorial homeland?

>The main thing that Israelis focus on is never again allowing ethnic Jews to be without a homeland or subject to extermination.

This kind of highlights the contradictions in the stated purpose and values of Israel. It's supposed to be a democratic state AND a Jewish state, but in order to make and preserve it as a Jewish state it's had to do some very undemocratic things. Not least of all was promoting immigration en masse to the British Mandate of Palestine before and after the Balfour Declaration. In essence an act of colonialism as the British never gave the people living there any say in the matter and the Jewish immigrants didn't care to ask either. These anti democratic actions were necessary to make the area majority Jewish

And today of course you have the conquest and settlement of the Golan Heights and West Bank, which Israel clearly intents to annex.

Whenever Israel has had to choose between it's Jewish identity and it's democratic identity it's always chosen the Jewish identity.

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Familiar_Pea_9345 t1_jbwfcy6 wrote

Reply to comment by MeatsimPD in 250,000 protesters take to the streets against regime change| Israel by LengthExact

Israel is a majority secular country. It’s less “God’s decree” and more of the fact that it’s their ancestral homeland, dating back many thousands of years, before Jesus allegedly existed and before Mohammad allegedly had his revelations. The main thing that Israelis focus on is never again allowing ethnic Jews to be without a homeland or subject to extermination.

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ILikeChangingMyMind t1_jbvs163 wrote

Reply to comment by slick2hold in 250,000 protesters take to the streets against regime change| Israel by LengthExact

Sort of ... they don't elect the PM directly, they elect representatives.

Netanyahu put together a coalition of right-wing conservative reps who were all willing to vote him in as PM, so he was elected ... but by them, not the Israeli people.

Of course, the fact that that many conservative nutjobs (that were willing to join a coalition with him) were elected in the first place just speaks to Israel's future ... or lack thereof.

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morbidbutwhoisnt t1_jbvised wrote

Reply to comment by chicol1090 in Lasell University Student Steals $547,000 in Credit Card Scam by mass1080

To be fair the movie came out in 1994. A million dollars in 1994 would be like 2.1 million.

So, not really castle money but still more buying power. And if he was in the Midwest the castle would probably have been like $750k at the time.

I'm in a city and I remember $250k homes were like these huge nice houses.

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waffebunny t1_jbve4uv wrote

Reply to comment by DontTazeMehBr0 in Tennessee governor OKs bill to cut Nashville council in half by Hrekires

I’m most likely preaching to the choir here, but:

Republicans have only one goal: to tilt the balance of power in favor of themselves (and potentially their base); either by granting themselves more influence, or by stripping it from others.

This is why they claim to value tradition, moderation, small government, fiscal responsibility, and family values: because their actual agenda is wholly unappealing to anyone outside their group.

As we can see in the example above however, Republicans will quickly betray their own purported values when doing so will forward their efforts to seize power.

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