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משכיל בינה's avatar

1) On the other side of the coin, Arab Israelis have numerous advantages. They are basically exempt from various forms of tax so they pay 50% of the price of a car and about 15% of the price of cigarettes. Essentially every nice car in Jerusalem you see is owned by an Arab. They also are exempt from military service, but those who choose to do it can leverage it well. The removals industry, for example, is dominated by Arabs because the easiest way to get a truck license is to join a particular army unit which is well over 95% Arab. I know someone who wanted to a be a truck driver so joined this unit and had to leave after a year because he couldn't cope with the bullying. But if we take all the pluses and minuses that Arabs have, the reasonable take is that Israel is doing a pretty decent job of dealing with a population who identify (for the most part) with Israel's enemies in an ongoing war. I can't think of any country that has done better under analogous circumstances. Of course, since Israeli Arabs have an IQ of around 80, they have lower incomes on average, but that is no-one's fault.

2) It sounds like Hughes is being disingenuous here, but so are you. Israel has good reason to limit Arab immigration, namely so it doesn't turn into another Lebanon. Israel's Arab citizens also gain from this policy.

4) Benny Morris says that the Zionists committed more massacres overall, but significantly fewer per village captured. Ultimately, the pro-Arab argument (as usual) comes down to their being too incompetent to do anything bad.

5) Genocidal intent can be clearly demonstrated from the Arab Palestinian leadership. Some Arab countries did not share this intent, and would perhaps have preferred not to be drawn into the war altogether, but they did anyway. Again, armies that just lose all the time don't usually commit a lot of massacres. I think on this point you are being particularly disingenuous.

6) The fact that many Muslims consider Jews stepping on their holy sites to be insulting ritual defilement is something Israel, and everyone else, must take into account, but it is not considered by reasonable people to be a justification of military action, let alone suicide bombings aimed at civilians. You are just excusing depraved behavior by nutty religious nationalists. I can do the same for Baruch Goldstein; it's not clever.

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Andy G's avatar

“For Palestinian women are extremely unlikely to be involved in a terrorist attack.”

What disingenuous misinformation, in service to claiming that Hughes deals in the same.

Just because it is unequivocally true that Palestinian women are LESS likely to be involved in a terrorist attack does NOT in fact make it true that they are “extremely unlikely”!

Wafa Idris

Ayat al-Akhras

Reem Riyashi

Fatima Omar Mahmoud al-Najjar

Andalib Suleiman Takatka

Hanadi Jaradat

Amna Muna

Hiba Abu Najma

Rasha Muhammad Oweissat

Muna As’ad Mansour

Fatma Tamimi

There are dozens of others.

You wanna call out supposed misinformation by others, best not to do it yourself.

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