#Ethnocracy is the only difference between the self-appointed Jewish State and the self-appointed Islamic State

EVEN #MODI DOESN'T DO THIS!?

"In July, former Prime Minister’s Office counter-terror official and INSS fellow Yoram Schweitzer called for considering such kinetic responses to terror attacks against Jews and Israelis abroad." https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880387

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If Iran behind Sydney attack, Israeli military must respond | The Jerusalem Post

A senior US official told Fox News that if Iran ordered the Australia attack, Washington would fully support a direct Israeli counter-strike on Iranian territory.

The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
It is long past time for the world to treat Israel's lies like those of other #apartheid #SettlerColonies. The #ethnocracy created there by land seizure and #EthnicCleansing is more extreme than were Northern Ireland or South Africa. We Jews are made less safe by #Zionist crimes.
This is your brain on #Orientalism, #SettlerColonialism, and #Zionism. Israelis are not defending themselves from unjustified attacks by Palestinians. They have spent 77 years imposing #ethnocracy & oppressing an indigenous population -- a people with the very same roots as they.
It sucks this is such a hard concept for Americans, but I blame our long history of #WhiteSupremacy. When we toppled #apartheid #SouthAfrica in 1994 & #NorthernIreland in 1998, only Israel was left as an #EthnoState. See, e.g., Israeli scholar #OrenYiftachel's book #Ethnocracy.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1998, the #GoodFridayAgreement was signed by the UK, #Ireland, and #SinnFéin for the #IRA. Its goal was a devolved government, dismantling #ethnocracy, and ending #TheTroubles, and it has been broadly successful. Negotiation is how you defeat #terrorism.
Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens

Administrative detention, long weaponized against Palestinians under occupation, is gradually being directed toward citizens too.

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#reference / Shlaim, Avi, Nadim Rouhana, Andre Zaaiman, and Na’eem Jeenah. 2012. “Pretending Democracy: Israel, an Ethnocratic State.”

The "Iron Wall" doctrine is a political strategy proposed by Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1923. Knowing very well European Jewish presence in Palestine would never be accepted, It advocated for the establishment of a Jewish state as a so-called "iron wall". The doctrine argued that Zionists should prioritize building up their own military and economic power without making any concessions to Arab interests or seeking Arab cooperation.

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Zionism, the founding fathers and the Palestine Arabs, Avi Shlaim

[...] My central thesis in this chapter is that the iron wall was a national strategy to which rival Zionist political camps subscribed during both the pre-independence and the post-independence periods. In other words, it will be argued that there was a remarkable convergence between mainstream Labour Zionism and right-wing Revisionist Zionism when it came to the Arab question and that this convergence persisted after 1948 under the Labor Party, Likud, and Kadima. To say this is not to deny the existence of deep differences between the rival political camps. Clearly, there was always a European-style ideological divergence between the left and right wing on social, economic and political issues. Nor is it to deny that there were also significant differences when it came to the Arab question. Rather, the argument is that while left and right were divided on the territorial aims of Zionism, they were united on the strategy of the iron wall. Revisionist Zionism staked a claim to a Jewish state over the whole of the British mandate of Palestine, including Transjordan. Labour Zionists, on the other hand, accepted the principle of the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. At the risk of over-simplification, the two groups may therefore be described as territorial maximalists and territorial realists. Yet – and this is the crucial point – regardless of the extent of their territorial ambition, the two groups understood that, given the absolute Arab rejection of the whole idea, a Jewish state could be established only by force of arms.

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