What do you think of Israel declaring the country as a "Jewish national state"?

And the retraction of Arabic as its second official language?

I'm personally not a fan of any religion getting involved in political matters, so I don't quite agree with that decision.

I'm not sure how many people there speak both Hebrew and Arabic, so I'd say if the majority does, the decision was unjustified, if it not, I kinda have to agree on it.
I also don't understand the outrage of politicians of Arabic descent calling the new law "racist" considering languages aren't directly and necessarily connected to a person's race/ethnicity (e.g. not all Middle Easterners speak Arabic, not all Eastern Asians speak Chinese, etc.).

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Gumba1000 · M

I think they can do what they like. It's their country and its democratic, the majority rules. The Palistinians could have left when Israel was created, they didn't leave. Now they and their descendants have to live with whatever happens.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Gumba1000 I don't think you would justify the history of Jim Crow laws on the grounds that Southern American whites were a majority. To me, this is the same thing. A majority group still has responsibility and a minority group should still have rights.

Gumba1000 · M

@Burnley123 No, democracy works by majority rule. If they don't like it, they can leave. Or at the very least, stop provoking the Jews.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Gumba1000 OK so let's go back to my example. Black people in the Jim Crow South lived in a democracy, more or less. If they don't like discriminatory laws and lynching, is it their fault for not just leaving?

Palestinians have a historic claim to the land anyway, much as the Zionist do. A mutual solution should be the aim.

Gumba1000 · M

@Burnley123 I don't know the history of Jim Crow South so I can't relate.

Separate states were proposed in the beginning when Israel was created. The Palestinians rejected it.

They lost their rights to the land when Britain conquered it.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Gumba1000 Well yeah, Britain is much to blame for the history. Fair cop guv but what do we do now?

Gumba1000 · M

@Burnley123 WE do nothing. They have had decades to work it out, they don't want to work it out. Leave them to it. We can't blame ourselves for our country's past mistakes when they happened before the majority of the population was born. Otherwise we should be claiming reparations from the Normans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings and Romans etc.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Gumba1000 The NATO powers massively subsidise the Israeli military and have done for decades. Leaving them to sort it out would be an improvement.

Gumba1000 · M

@Burnley123 I agree on that. We should stop selling our arms to radical states.