Dawn raids see pro-Palestine activists arrested

Please correct your facts before commenting, as I am sure you could be sued.

There is no apartheid in Israel for starters, so where you come up with such tripe is beyond me.

As for being arrested..well They knew what their bail conditions were, so tough luck. I heard an interview with one of them, who was boasting that he had breached them.

There is nothing the same about the South African issue and the Israeli/Palestine debate.
I was personally discussed when I heard Palestinan protesters in Sydney (Parramatta protest) start chanting death to Israel, then death to Jews.
BDS has a major problem, most Australians don't care about Palestine, Hamas and all the other Extremist groups, Australians don't like outside Flags being flown in protest in Australia. The Extrem Left needs to stop getting young Australians arrested over issues that are more complex than what people understand.
If you think you have the right to freedom of expression, try giving the same right back to the people that protest against you.

Equating Israel's Palestinian policies and actions to South Africa's apartheid regime is unfair - Israel's actions are far worse.

Viva Palestina!

Jamie, it is people like you that give Australians a very bad name, you need to read alot more about history and the truth before you make statements like yours.
If you need a reading list I can send you one.

Max Brenner Chocolates has ties to the Israeli military?

That is fantasy - as is much of the drivel in your posting.

The deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament (Ahmed Tibi) is an Arab who very vocally supports a Palestinian state, and was one of the terrorist Arafat's advisors.
Is that Apartheid?

On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority forbids sale of land to Jews on penalty of death! The Palestinians want their state "Judenrein" as Hitler put it. THAT is apartheid!

Jamie mate...you don't have clue

There is no apartheid in Israel. All citizens have the same rights, more than this country if you really want to know

Everyone has the same access to medical needs and education.

The Arab population of Israel is about 20% of the total.

There have been Israeli Arab members of the Knesset ( Israeli parliament) since the first Knesset elections in 1949.Currently there are 14.

Does that sound like apartheid to you ?

Arab journalist: Gaza's problem is not Israel

A journalist for Egypt's Al-Ahram daily newspaper confirmed what a small handful of Western reporters have had the integrity to reveal of late: that Gaza really isn't under siege, and that any oppression felt by local Palestinians is caused by fellow Arabs, and not Israel.

In stark contrast to regular Western media reports of widespread deprivation and destitution in Gaza, Ashraf Abu al-Houl reported that "a sense of absolute prosperity prevails, as manifested by the grand resorts along and near Gaza's coast."

Al-Houl also wrote that "the sight of the merchandise and luxuries filling Gaza shops amazed me." Not only that, but al-Houl quickly discovered that most goods can be bought in Gaza for much cheaper than in Egypt because in Gaza "supply is much greater than demand."

As a select few Western journalists have dared to report, that fact brought al-Houl to the realization that Israel's limited embargo against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip "is formal or political, not economic." In other words, Israel is not causing an economic or humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

However, there is widespread poverty in Gaza, but it is the product of corruption and a wide gap between the "haves" and "have-nots."

Al-Houl interviewed political activist Mustafa Ibrahim, who noted that around 20 percent of Gazans control nearly all the wealth in the territory, and nearly all of them are affiliated closely with the ruling Hamas movement. The wealthy Gazans invest heavily in the leisure industry and spend lavishly, while charging outrageous fees for basic luxuries like visiting local beaches.

Among the rest of the population, unemployment is approximately 45 percent, and those are the Gazans constantly featured by the Western media as the products of so-called "Israeli oppression."

The world's reaction to those media reports is to flood Gaza with even more humanitarian aid, which goes through the hands of the wealthy, and ultimately just makes them richer, while the poor get poorer.

Israeli officials have alluded to this situation in the past when they warned that while there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza today, the international community may actually create one by playing into the hands of the territory's corrupt elite class.

This headline should really read 'Dawn raids see Left wing law breakers arrested'. The arrests were made because bail conditions were broken and in this democratic country when laws are broken the person(s) that break them are called to account,

Your reporting loses credibility when it resorts to wild allegations, such as accusing Israel of an ongoing genocide against the Palestinians and being an apartheid state.
If Israel were conducting a genocide, how is it that the Palestinian population has multiplied at least fourfold since Israel was established?
As for the apartheid slur, it is an insult to those who genuinely suffered under apartheid South Africa, whereas every citizen of Israel - Arab, Christian, Jewish - has the vote.

Vic Alhadeff# CEO, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

Apart from ethnic Middle Eastern's no other sane or insane individual has an excuse for supporting this left wing cause. The tripe that you people chant in the streets would be laughable if it were not reminiscent of the late 1930's in Germany. How can anyone other than partisan Palestinians who wrongly believe that Israel is an apartheid state, when it is the only democracy in the region and possibly the most robust one in the world. Arabs, Christians and any one else have equal rights in all aspects of life in Israel, whereas in Palestinian controlled Gaza woman and children are used as shields for terorists who spend the 5 billion in glbal aid they've been given on their own war mongering needs instead of building a sustainable society. The reason palestinians in the streets of Gaza and West Bank are anti Israel is because they are fed lies in schools that preaches hatred and destruction and prolongs disharmony through the generations. The trouble with the Palestinians and the gullible unwashed students and socialist lefts who support them is that its far easier to blame someone else for your own problems instead of getting off your arse and building something of your own.

How come you aren't demonstrating against Jordan which is by far the larger part of what used to be called Palestine. I don't see any Jordanians calling themselves palestinians and sending missiles into the capital.

Mark

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