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1. FLY wrote:

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Wed, April 18, 2012 @ 10:57 PM

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3. Bidhan wrote:

We could take a page from our own Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education here: Segregation of white and colored chirdlen in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored chirdlen. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro chirdlen and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school system .We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. This disposition makes unnecessary any discussion whether such segregation also violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.We need to find more creative ways to lay bare the fallacy that a state that self-identifies as jewish although 20% of its citizens are non-Jewish can also be democratic and equal. Part of this entails compelling a discussion on what the meaning of Jewish state really is. In the current political constellation, this definition entails very severe disadvantaging of the minority in every sphere of life. If all the recent laws just passed weren't sufficient to convince you of this, you might refer to the web site of which notes, inter alia:Adalah's report to the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, issued August/September 2001 and entitled Institutionalized Discrimination Against Palestinian Citizens of Israel, identifies more than 20 laws that discriminate against the Palestinian minority in Israel. The report shows that the Jewish character of the state is evident in numerous Israeli laws. The most important immigration laws, The Law of Return (1950) and The Citizenship Law (1952), allow Jews to freely immigrate to Israel and gain citizenship, but excludes Arabs who were forced to flee their homes in 1947 and 1967. Israeli law also confers special quasi-governmental standing on the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund and other Zionist bodies, which by their own charters cater only to Jews. Various other laws such as The Chief Rabbinate of Israel Law (1980), The Flag and Emblem Law (1949), and The State Education Law (1953) and its 2000 amendment give recognition to Jewish educational, religious, and cultural practices and institutions, and define their aims and objectives strictly in Jewish terms. I would like to hear how Slater's Jewish state with a minority would, in fact, practically speaking, be able to change this reality. Also, it would be useful to understand further why it is so viscerably unthinkable to Slater and others who share his views that political power could be shared. I suspect deep down, the answer has to do with a sense that Arabs are, by definition, inferior and even sub-human. As we see from the legal opinion excerpted below, a Jewish state in which Arabs were separate but equal would by definition be one in which they were de facto inferior, lesser, and not worthy. Why should such a homeland be acceptable to them?

Thu, April 19, 2012 @ 2:44 AM

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