In yet another reality-denying ritual of fealty to the pro-Israel lobby, members of Congress absurdly voted to say Israel was neither an apartheid state nor racist. Only a few progressives, including members of the Squad, stood firm in opposing the measure.

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      When the US occupied Iraq, we didn’t give Iraqis the right to vote in US elections. By your definition that made the US an apartheid state.

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        The United States was an invader and an occupier of Iraq. You’re delusional if you think Muslims have the same rights and opportunities as Jews in Israel.

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          I studied US/Israel comparative law in law school. So unless my professor was delusional, and the authors of all the books about it were delusional, and the original sources were hallucinats … I’d say the more likely situation is that you simply don’t know what you’re talking about.

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            Next you’re gonna say America is the land of opportunity and minorities only have a hard time because they’re lazy.

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              Not at all. I’m extremely liberal, and very upset by income and wealth inequality in the US, and the lack of meritocracy.

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                Then I’ll give you a hint, America and Israel are part of the same military-industrial-economic complex. They both only serve to empower those at the top of the hierarchy of violence, and they use minorities as a scapegoat. BTW: Meritocracies are still hierarchies of inequality. They STILL grind the disabled and impoverished into dust.

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            go make you an real life. I trust u studied only if u paid 16k year in an private school for liberals nazists fascists like you

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              Liberal Nazist fascist? That’s an oxymoron.

              You might want to Google some basic political fundamentals.

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                Thats like 1984. Becauses people like you liberal seems shit when its heard. At reading you, u proclaiming yourself economic liberal I guess principally, and you may think you are too in social.

                Spoiler you are nowhere liberal. When its crisis where are your fundamentals values.

                So i don’t give a shit about your words, right wing’s troll. Yeahh you are liberal, fascist and an racist, to defend your fake state with poor arguments with no weight on it.

                Bye pig

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        Hmm, you seem to be on to something here. So what you are saying is that if you conquer a place, and then take away the citizens of that place right to self-determination and start genociding them, that by definition that is an apartheid state… But how can that be if another state also does the same thing?

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          Genocide, too, huh?

          Listen, when your hatred for Israel is so blind that you are just slapping on whatever evil label you can think of, you’re just hurting your own case.

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              So do I. But if you’ll notice, this isn’t Israel policy, and when individual soldiers step out of line they are immediately investigated and punished.

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                Israel policy… what you dont have to read. This country doesnt even have an consitution stop your bullshit and propagand here. You will fake no one You Fascit, Racist.

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                  Correct, instead they have “Basic Laws” which uphold human rights, civil Rights, and equal justice. Everything you’d want from a constitution.