Britain's advertising watchdog banned an Israeli government tourism advert for suggesting that the Old City of Jerusalem was part of Israel on Wednesday.

That's nonsense. "People" are infinitely divisible down to the individual. There's nothing to prevent the rulership from declaring everyone under their control their people regardless of ethnic composition. There is no objective division of "people" so all subjective assertions are equally valid.

Israel calls itself the Jewish State. It has a big fucking Jewish star on its flag. It demolishes Arab homes in the Palestinian territories to create homes for Jewish settlers. It expelled 700,000 Arabs from Israel in order to remove the demographic to Jewish hegemony over the state. It has jewish laws like banning public transport on Shabbat and favoring Jewish immigration while banning Israeli Arab refugees from immigrating to Israel. Its a Jewish state. There is no way around it.

I agree that the optimal solution would be for there to be a binational or non-ethnic state that encompasses both Palestinian Arabs and Jews, but we dont live in that world. We live in a world where the only practical solution is two states for two peoples.

There is no objective distinction between parcels of land. There is no such thing as Arab land any more than there is Caucasian land or Mongol land or Catalan land.

We have to make these sorts of distinctions in order to divide territiories between ethnic states. The whole international community sees the Palestinian territories as owned by Arabs legally. Thats what makes it Arab land. Again, if Israel wants to extend citizenship to the Palestinian Arabs then it can do whatever it wants with Palestinian Arab land.

Isn't it non-ethnic? Arabs vote in Israel, correct? They are citizens of Israel, yes? In what sense is Israel a more "ethnic state" than any country in Europe or South America or anywhere else? Because their immigration policy has provisions for Jewish ancestry? That hardly seems significant.

See my answer above.

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