Hacker News Reader

Even the comparison to China seems like an overkill.

Israel is a democracy, China isn't. Israel has free speech, China doesn't.

The two can hardly be compared.

Israel is only a democracy for those included as citizens. There are millions of Arabs in the West Bank who are explicitly excluded as citizens while the Jewish Israeli settlers all around them are considered Israeli citizens.

Israel is a democracy for those that it wants in its democracy and it is military rule for those that wants excluded.

First you say Israel doesn't rightfully own the west bank, and then you say Israel should give all west bank Arab residents citizenship?

You'r contradicting yourself.

No, I am saying that Israel runs a two tiered system of rights in the West Bank, one for Jewish Israeli settlers and one for the non-Jewish Palestinian Arabs. I believe it is wrong. Do you feel it is justified?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com