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In reply to the discussion: Dear Liberals: Being Critical of Islam Is Not Racism [View all]Depaysement
(1,835 posts)I don't know what to say. Yours is an amazingly racist post. You've essentially argued Jewish exceptionalism. And you've conflated Jews and Israel, which are emphatically not the same thing.
No American government aid goes to China. A lot of American aid goes to Egypt because of Camp David - and who benefits from that? We bought off an Israeli enemy to ensure that there would not be an existential war that Israel would lose.
For obvious reasons, India-Pakistan is not exactly a shining example of a successful "population exchange," whatever that is. That is still one of the major world hot zones for a potential nuclear war.
The Nakba was a population exchange? That's just an absurd and ignorant reading of the history of post-mandatory Palestine. Palestinians were systematically driven out of Palestine as a matter of Israeli government policy. That's not a "population exchange."
That Jews were displaced and discriminated against in Arab countries I have no doubt. But as the old saw goes, two wrongs don't make a right.
One can't be a racist progressive. One has to choose to be one or the other.