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(Original post by Rhadamanthus)
Well if you've had to surf my profile then you're obviously not familiar with me. If you bothered to read any of the discussions I've had then you'd see I'm not as pro-Israel as you think. I have consistently argued that Israel committed atrocities upon its founding and that it has ignored the peace process over the past few decades. Yet I do not think this undermines the Zionist movement as a whole, hence my membership of the latent 'Zionist society'. As for thinking that 'any criticism of Israeli government policies is an attack on all Jews' - this is a pure, unmitigated straw man. I have said nothing of the sort, and have in fact argued the opposite on many occasions. Please do not jump to conclusions. I have argued this issue on TSR for nearly three years now and have encountered no shortage of people who use ideologically-charged, historically-devoid words like 'apartheid' that are precisely what I said they are - buzzwords. If you want a discussion on West Bank policy then I'll give you one, as long as you refrain from terms like 'apartheid' that are insulting to Israelis and to South Africans.

I have jumped to no conclusions, I have drawn one from the tone of your posts and profile. I never said Israel instituted an 'apartheid' system, I said it was the closest thing in the modern world to one- a developed 'democracy' that clearly has a bias towards one portion of society and an institutional prejudice against another. It does not have the same level of human rights abuses as South Africa, but for want of a better word I think the term describes the situation aptly, and frankly the people who have the right to be offended are the victims of Israeli government policies, not you.
My views that some Jews think that criticisms of Israel are attacks on Jews is not a strawman; I did not attempt to refute any part of your argument with it. I was merely extrapolating my viewpoint further. And if you bothered reading my post, I never said that you said anything of the sort, I said that it is a view expressed by many hardline Israeli fanboys that I have met both online and in real life. I have been called anti-semitic so many times I have lost count, simply for daring to criticise an Israeli government policy. Heck I was labelled the term for once saying that I did not believe that Israel has the best air force in the world.

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(Original post by AkaJetson)
Why?

Because countries should be able to determine who they allow in and not be bullied by the corrupt thugs at the UN.

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(Original post by Rhadamanthus)
Israel absorbs thousands of asylum seekers from Africa every year and doesn't deport them for violating its borders. nd of Israel." That seems to totally contradict what you've just said.

It is deporting a few more now as they are a threat to the national character.

Africans were being stopped on the street and issued deportation orders, he added. "About 100 more have been arrested this morning."

Many of the migrants have been working in hotels and restaurants, while others have been holding down manual jobs or working as contracted day labor. All of them were technically working illegally.

Israeli opinion is divided over plans to eventually deport some 60,000 African migrants deemed a social irritant and a threat to the Jewish character of the state. A columnist in the daily Yedioth Ahronoth called it "hysteria". Another in the same paper said the methods may be "needlessly brutal" but it was necessary.

The first deportation flight is expected to leave Israel on Sunday for Juba, the capital of South Sudan, as part of what Israel calls Operation Returning Home.

Detentions began on Sunday in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, where Israeli television filmed weeping African women and men in handcuffs. Those detained were sent to the Saharonim detention facility in the Negev Desert, close to where they first entered Israel over the porous Sinai Desert border with Egypt.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...85B0IY20120612