01-31-2018, 07:40 PM
(01-31-2018, 06:21 PM)Dill Wrote: Israeli-Arabs don't "thrive" there. They are an ethnic minority in an ethnic state. And Israeli citizenship doesn't prevent their property from being appropriated too. Israeli laws are designed to favor Jewish over Arab citizens of Israel.
The purpose of law, state, national and international, is to prevent the powerful from taking from the innocent. Now millions of innocent people DON'T lose their property because the law protects them.
If I steal your car and end in court, it will not be a suitable defense if I tell the judge that "taking from the innocent has been happening the entire history of the world and if Lucy can't defend what he has he will lose it." The judge will decide that I have violated your rights, return your car, and put me in prison. And that is the point of law--to stop what has been happening "the entire history of the world."
Your position on Palestinian leadership is still rather unclear to me. It is clear you don't like them. But it is not clear why you think they are terrorists or have behaved badly, as opposed to Israeli leadership. Also, even if they did behave badly, that would give Israel no legal right to take the land of their people, any more than if you behave badly it gives me the right to take your car.
Israel behaving badly doesn't lower them in your estimation. double standard.
That’s pretty clear on Abbas http://freebeacon.com/politics/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-palestinian/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-pa-minister-says-he-quit-over-rampant-corruption-in-ramallah/
https://www.haaretz.com/whdcMobileSite/israel-news/.premium-corrupt-pa-officials-too-comfortable-to-resist-occupation-1.5429545
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-tough-times-most-palestinians-view-government-as-corrupt/
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/israel-west-bank-hamas-benjamin-netanyahu-journalism.html
Quote:No journalists in Gaza — no matter how senior — would even think of criticizing the leaders of Hamas, and in the Palestinian Authority (PA), criticism of any kind against President Mahmoud Abbas, or exposure of corruption in the PA, could result in the journalist’s arrest.
“We all known there’s terrible corruption in the PA,” a senior veteran journalist from Ramallah, the seat of the PA in the West Bank, told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “We know hundreds of stories about senior PA officials and about Abbas’ sons, but we can’t publish them or even talk openly about them.”
According to various reports, the PA has for years been plagued by corruption. The governmental structure put in place by the late Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat did not include control and supervision mechanisms. Every Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza knows full well that those closest to the seat of power often enjoy a lifestyle incompatible with the salary of a PA official.
“We saw PLO activists who arrived [in the West Bank and Gaza] from Libya and Tunisia [in the 1990s] with only the clothes on their backs, and a few months after the PA was established they were already driving around in Mercedes cars, wearing Italian suits and building ostentatious villas,” the journalist claimed. “To this day they are all rich, taken care of and no one can say a word or even ask where such wealth came from.”
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/israel-west-bank-hamas-benjamin-netanyahu-journalism.html#ixzz55nx09HDw
That’s just a few links when I searched palestinians corruption.
