Re: AUT: Re: Palestione, Israel...."ethnocratic liberalism"

[Ilan Shalif <gshalif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi People
Michael Handelman wrote:

> I probably shouldn't comment on this, because my
> knowledge of Israel-Palestine is quite weak, but I
> think I can understand why comparisons with South
> Africa, make some sense:

For sure every settler colonialism have things in common
with other settler colonialist systems, and with colonialism
and imperialism.

However, there is so big difference between
the settler colonialism wishing to expel and/or exterminate
and all the other systems that are wishing to exploit.

> In Israel, there is Representive Democracy-but only if
> you happen to be Jewish, this is different from Nazi
> Germany, where there was no representive democracy,
> but it is distinctly similar to Aparteid South Africa.

No one say that Israel is equal to Nazi Germany.
In spite of the Nazist ideology of the majority of the elite,
because of international concideration, the democracy
among the Jews increased immensely during the years,
and even the Palestinan citizens of Israel got lot of improvements.

> Someone has called this "ethnocratic liberalism", and
> it seems to be one of the best ways (at least to me)
> to describe Israel.

It is clearly much more democratic and liberal since
the national socialists lost the power in 1977.

However, the dominant ideology among the Jews
is still very simmilar to that of the Nazi.



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