fitterr

Can you settle a bet for me? Where's the pickle in a Pickle Surprise?

This was something Pinhas Lavon pointed out in the 50s regarding the Arabs who remained after the establishment of Israel being under a de facto martial law regime without even the pretension of equal rights:

Under its terms, Arabs had to be equipped with permits both to work and to travel outside their hometowns, which were also under curfew at night. As long as we keep them in ghettos, Aran said, no constructive activity will help. Lavon, too, urged the dismantlement of the military government. In 1955, a few months after resigning as defense minister, he savaged the concept at a meeting in Beit Berl. The State of Israel cannot solve the question of the Arabs who are in the country by Nazi means, he stated, adding, Nazism is Nazism, even if carried out by Jews.

Whatever happened to Ralphus?

The Israelis keep using the word "border" when in fact there is no border, as border would imply sovereign nation, etc. Seems like a direct appeal to the US psyche....

Can you speak to the way Israel is used as a "testing ground" for techniques that will be used by/within the US? IOW to what extent is the current atrocity in Gaza (and anything else perpetrated by the Israelis) a dress rehearsal for future atrocities that the US seems to want to perpetrate against brown migrants?

Go on...