Maia wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:11 amIf you're indifferent to something, it means that you don't care about it. It does not mean "not different".Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 10:24 pmI defined fascism earlier, I believe. "Indifferent" means 'without a difference or distinction'. If you don't like the term being defined by the original meanings, then ...
Is Israel a "state that is defined to be by and for ONE specific ethnicity." ?
And note that a VETO power automatically grants the Jewish or Semitic peoples the ONLY right to drop any bill proposed, or what is the meaning of a "Jewish" state? A "Racist" is one who believes that their own RACIALIZED ethnicity is 'superior' to SOME other ....or equally, that one that believes SOME ethnicity as 'inferior', such as the Israeli stereotypes against Palestinians.
If you again disagree, define 'racism'.
Then, define 'democracy'. My own is a 'governing system that (a) places the sovereignty to the people, not God nor to some racial class, that (b) grants ALL PEOPLE equivalence in POWER to vote and to participate as ONE PERSON, regardless of race, ethnicity, or other genetic class description. "Demo-" refers to the people, NOT a specific subset of them. And then tell me if they'd let the non-Jew be more than 49% of the population.(?)
And no need to reflect that the Palestinians are comparable. I don't support ANY theocratic factor defining a country. If one PRETENDS (and both sides do) that you can be a 'democracy' while placing the invisible magic 'superior' being at the head of a country's constitution, they are dangerous and deluded.
So?
I was not aware that the constitution of Israel gives the Jewish people the right to veto any bill, and, since Israel is a secular state, I'd be extremely surprised if such a clause exists. How would it even be implemented? Still, if you think it does exist, please provide a link.
It's not at all uncommon, though, for a particular state to be defined in terms of ethnicity. In fact, most states are, at least in origin. England, for example, means the land of the English. This does not mean, of course, that other people can't live there. How many should do so, and how much they should be expected to integrate, is currently the single most important issue in English politics, a pattern that is being repeated across the Western world.
In the case of Israel, as I've said before, around 20% of its citizens are Arab Muslims. Palestinians, in other words, if you prefer that term, but fully integrated into Israeli society. Arabic is one of the four main languages of Israel, along with Hebrew, English, and Russian, and all of those can be heard everywhere in the country, on the street, in shops, restaurants, and so on. It's very much a polyglot sort of place, and not a monoculture.
" Israel is defined indifferent to fascism" means that there is no difference between the meaning of 'fascism' and "a state that is by and for ONLY one ethnicity"
I think you are evading the issue for pretending that you cannot understand my meaning in context. Or tell me what it means to call this a "Jewish" state? Understand that the only reason the world encouraged to help the Jews set up a state was itself due to racists who didn't want to deal with trying to deal with postwar Europe. AND, it was a bonus to the arrogant Christians who have a belief to bring about the conditions of Armageddon.
A quick Google search defined 'fascism' in terms of a post-hoc definition and got this:
Do you think that when selling their political ideal that they won over those who used this popular meaning? Definitions are made up by people who use them. And the way politics puts its own influence on trying to discourage others from ever FAVORING the term for their own possible use, is to malign the term, ...redefine it on how one feels about 'fascism' not what it meant to those attracted to the ideal. Can you not see that redefining the term from its original makes the USE of the term appear to INOCULATE the general public's perception of the political ideal.Google wrote:"Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
Philosophy requires respecting definitions to those arguing. I am asserting that Israel's belief is based upon pure fascism AND IS one of the number one reasons for the German Nationalists were arguing for their own 'indigenous' controls over Germany. They too let anyone 'assimilate' to the Germanic State. The discrimination that got aimed more towards the Jews in particular was about their role in framing "fascism". Germany looked to the Jewish community as a source for their movement: they were EMULATING the very ethnic pride that they thought had kept the Jewish people together and how they are successful in using their isolation to an extreme. Thus, the reason for expulsion of Jews was about the fact that you cannot have MORE THAN ONE Nationality to a 'Nationalist' ideal. In Italy, the ideals would happen to be the same IF Jewish people were not considered "Italian". This culturally MONOPOLIZES a state to ONE ethnic group by preventing any citizen that is NOT of the constitutional definition to be deemed second-class.
Now if you disagree, then why is "Israel" a "Jewish state"? What does it MEAN to be a "Jewish" state?
Are you now aware?Maia wrote:I was not aware that the constitution of Israel gives the Jewish people the right to veto any bill, and, since Israel is a secular state, I'd be extremely surprised if such a clause exists. How would it even be implemented? Still, if you think it does exist, please provide a link."
A 'veto' power is like how your own British-based system will have the veto power of the royalty, the Queen or King, to formally accept or deny any law, especially one that threatens their existence. That in itself is the LEGAL meaning that ENABLES the royalty to still have power, ....even if they are not actually using it at the moment. The U.S. was founded specifically upon the FEAR that the Imperial family was actually using that power and why they demanded their definition of a state to be by and for ALL people regardless of ethnicity or religion. Then the First Amendment was to assure the people are NOT ethnically biased to be ABLE to deny one their ability to speak freely.
So Yes, the constitution of Israel is 'fascist' in principle AND is the main reason for not officially asserting this in a 'Constitution' as a formal document: it would clearly spell out to non-Jews that they are SECOND-CLASS citizens. AND the 'veto' power is to Jewish only, meaning that they REQUIRE keeping the population of the non-Jews safely BELOW 51%. THIS is why they do not nor will not want to recognize the Palestinians.
But you concede that....
It does not MEAN that one cannot live in such a state. It just means that IF you live within such a state that you recognize the superior authority of specific families of people with PRIORITY. But I happen to also be against even Royalty veto power because they CAN and WOULD exercise that power when they want it. That's why it remains there. But at the moment we are talking about Israel, a state that is strictly set up FOR Jewish-Semitic supremacists AND their behavior proves their arrogance.It's not at all uncommon, though, for a particular state to be defined in terms of ethnicity. In fact, most states are, at least in origin. England, for example, means the land of the English. This does not mean, of course, that other people can't live there. How many should do so, and how much they should be expected to integrate, is currently the single most important issue in English politics, a pattern that is being repeated across the Western world."
The citizenry inclusions of fascist states only requires that one ASSIMILATES. But they are NOT for INTEGRATION' of cultures (a definition that cannot be for one ethnicity). The British-based Commonwealth countries, like Canada, adopted a form of segregationist view that adopts integration but fosters out distinction into a 'mosaic'. This KIND of system is somewhat 'multi-fascist' in that is promotes us to align ourselves up with ethnicity rather than promote intermarriages between different IDENTITY stereotypes. It too does not make people like myself a non-citizen.... but it DOES empower us to form 'nations within nations' of equally racist peoples who just shake hands to agree to the same belief in their distaste for the other. It is 'better' than the mono-fascism that occurs in states like Israel and Saudi Arabia, both who 'shake hands' this way kind of thinking on the world stage.
I do NOT believe in segregating populations into ethnic cults, especially where they also include religion. The Jews are unique in their 'blurring' of the meanings between their genetic biased religion and their racial-biological links to supposed ancient ancestors that justifies even non-Jewish religion (Judaism) as long as it is within 'family'. Thus, they lack the full religious requirement to be 'Jewish'.
What I didn't answer specifically is still IMPLIED or included from what I've said here.