@no1marauder saidThis may be one of the drawbacks of proportional representation when smaller, more extremist parties can hold the balance of power.
Well, it's probably not a word, but still an accurate description. Netanyahu and even nuttier right wingers are now in power and their platform is spitting in the face of any chance for lasting peace in the region. Consider:
"The coalition’s platform says that “the Jewish people have exclusive and indisputable rights” over the entirety of Israel and the Palestinian te ...[text shortened]... in the not to distant future), continue to treat them as noncitizens with few rights or expel them?
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More Palestinian homes will be destroyed in their zeal to take over Palestinian lands like they have been doing for 50 years or more.
@sonhouse saidwhere is this country of which you speak?
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More Palestinian homes will be destroyed in their zeal to take over Palestinian lands like they have been doing for 50 years or more.
@kevcvs57 saidExcept they don't - Israel has always been a right-wing, racist state. It was designed as such. Guess where the inspiration came from...
This may be one of the drawbacks of proportional representation when smaller, more extremist parties can hold the balance of power.
(I still say we should've housed them in Utah. They'd have got along like a house on fire.)
@shallow-blue saidOn the land of the Peyote and Navajo people? Why?
Except they don't - Israel has always been a right-wing, racist state. It was designed as such. Guess where the inspiration came from...
(I still say we should've housed them in Utah. They'd have got along like a house on fire.)
@shallow-blue said"(I still say we should've housed them in Utah.'
Except they don't - Israel has always been a right-wing, racist state. It was designed as such. Guess where the inspiration came from...
(I still say we should've housed them in Utah. They'd have got along like a house on fire.)
very racist of you
@mott-the-hoople saidA country is a physical location not a government. You didn't ask for the name of a country anyway you asked for the name of a location.
are you stupid enough to think those are countries?
They are in the nation-state of Israel and are being treated like garbage by their own internationally recognized "democratic" government (which they did not get to elect)
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@shavixmir saidThe Scots are a nation and Scotland is a country (previously known as Caledonia or Pictland) and I think it counts as a State in a Union like California is.
Is Scotland a country?