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ROG62 » 25 Sep 2024, 9:09 am » wrote: ↑

25 Sep 2024, 9:09 am

Ethics? that's rich...

Shouldn't Israel be held to a higher standard of ethics considering it claims to be moral and just while doing this ....I think it wouldn’t be right to say a country is bad or wrong in its entirety, but many of Israel’s actions are deplorable.

1. It continues to occupy pieces of Syria and Palestine and Lebanon for 53 years now and refuses to leave them despite continuous UN appeals.
2. It unilaterally and illegally annexed pieces of those territories.
3. It builds illegal civilian settlements in occupied territory, on territories taking from indigenous, occupied population.
4. It forced out / didn’t let back in hundreds of thousands of indigenous population from its land in 1947–1949 and later, changing the ethnic composition of its territory completely. It confiscated their land too.
5. It destroyed a number of cultural and religious sites, even quite important in history (like the mosque of Al-Husayn in Ascalon).
6. Arab citizens are treaten as second-class citizens; it is a state of Jewish nation, not of all of its citizens, and this shows in many aspects.
7. In occupied territories; its forces used human shields several times, even children. Indigenous population is not adequately protected from attacks by radical Israel settlers, who f.e. vandalise their churches and mosques, cut their orchards etc. Also, indigenous population is virtually deprived of possibilities to build new houses or new wells etc, and Israel even happened to demolish repaired ancient wells (repaired with help of foreign charity organisations). Israel also makes transport and living there hard for the population, as well as uses excessive force and collective responsibility, resulting in many deaths, mostly civilians, often children.
8. Unlike what Israel tries to say, wars of 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982 etc. with Israel’s neighbours were started by Israel, which launched offensive, even if it had some pretext for this, good (in 1967 it was good) or not. Only wars in 1973 and 1948 were clearly started by Israel’s neighbours.
9. Israel used its secret services in questionable ways. For example, in Lavon affair, Israeli spies were targetting western, including American, objects in Egypt, trying to pose it as work of Egyptian radicals, to spoil relations between USA and the West in general and Egypt. Not so nice, is it.
10. Israel often tries to make really outrageous excuses for its actions, blaming the victims or trying to present valid criticisement of Israeli state’s actions as antisemitism. Which is dangerous for battling actual antisemitism too.