Hacker News Reader

Comment by bjourne | Hacker News Reader

White Americans and white Boers were forced to treat colored people as their equals. Eventually Jewish Israelis will have to treat Palestinians as their equals too. It's exactly the same, except the level of extremism we see on the Israeli Jewish side is extremely high.

View on HN

No. There were multiple attempts to destroy Israel by force and the outcome is this. There are Israeli arabs with equal rights as Jews so this isn't the ethnic struggle it was in the US or sa. This is what do you do with a defeated enemy.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "destroying Israel"? In your previous comment you claimed that letting the victims of the 1948 ethnic cleansing return is the "destruction of the Jewish state". But that is something the international community has demanded since 1948. So is the international community trying to destroy Israel?

Suppose an American president had said "I've killed lots of blacks in my life and there's no problem with that". Or that the US largest newspaper published essays arguing that America would have failed if it ever got a black president. Or that congress enacted laws saying that the right to national self-determination in the US is unique to white people. If the US was like that would you say that blacks had equal rights?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210201162924/https://www.jpost...

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/31/17623978/israel-jewish-n...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com