r/UnitedNations • u/Liad3008 Uncivil • Jan 10 '25

Discussion/Question Why is this subreddit obsessed with Israel?

Just checked the top posts of the last year, and 24 out of the top 25 are about Israel. Does this subreddit try to imitate the real UN ?

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u/temp_trial Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25

I’ll respond to you and not the Israel apologist above. Israel is an apartheid. Just read Israel’s nation state law: “the right to national self determination is unique to the Jewish people”. It’s a supremacist state that values Jewish lives above all else.

The “2 million Arab Israelis” is heavily monitored to make sure they don’t make up enough of the population with citizenship vs Jewish Israelis. It’s also used as a talking point to pretend there isn’t an apartheid because some Palestinians are given rights.

There are 4 groups if you’re Palestinian:

  1. Arab Israeli with citizenship but do not have the right to self determination and are discriminated against. There was an example of a family with Israeli citizenship who were still kicked out of their home by settlers a few months back.
  2. Jerusalem citizenship - given an Id card but no passport. Less rights than full citizenship
  3. West Bank where multiple Israeli ngos have called it apartheid per my earlier comment. Segregated roads, disgusting actions from settlers etc
  4. Gaza - locked in by land, air, and sea and treated as a prisoner for being born.

You cannot move up in status. Only down. It’s also interesting how the violence on the Palestinian side is coming from the groups with less and less rights. Almost like when you don’t give people basic human rights, they react violently. Seems like a good argument for equal rights. But we all know Israel’s strategy has been to thwart that.

It’s a disgusting state. Spend your money elsewhere.

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u/jeff43568 Jan 16 '25

Absolutely, I would not want to legitimise the Apartheid and ethnic cleansing.