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OrangeJoe

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7. Been there done that and I don't agree at all
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 01:57 AM
Apr 24

We traveled there in the early 1980s right after living in a country bordering on South Africa when it was an apartheid nation. Israel was many times worse than S Africa. In general the white S Africans helds a racist paternalistic attitude towards Black S Africans. They considered them child-like and uninterested in governing themselves. Israelis, on the other hand, openly expressed hatred towards the Palestinians. I can't count the number of times they told us how much they wanted the Palestinians gone or dead. I personally witnessed Uzi toting settlers, speaking with American accents so not Sephardic, shoving elderly Arabs off the sidewalk. We were stopped on the street by the police (Askenazis) and questioned in the most arrogant manner something that never happened to us in South Africa. All in all they are just a terrible people and I would never go back there.

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