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Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by hobom on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:22AM (#32673545)
Calling Israel an appartheid state, and your specific examples betray a state of mind which applies arbitrary standards to Israel that never get applied to literally ANY other country in the world.

Some of your specific examples: "Illegal Settlers living in Palestine can vote in Israel but not Palestinians." Americans living abroad in France can vote in American elections, but note the French people. Therefore the US is an appartheid state.

How is controlling your state border via a wall appartheid?

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Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by autoexec on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:52AM (#32673771)
> Americans living abroad in France can vote in American elections, but note the French people. Therefore the US is an appartheid state.

Are French people effected by America's laws and politics the same way Palestinians are effected by Israel's laws and politics? If America controlled the water, power, marriages, fishing rights and freedoms of the French people I would argue that perhaps they should have a vote.

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Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by lm28469 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @06:24AM (#32674401)
You forgot the part where the US isn't trying to invade France
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Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by kurupt213 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @07:35AM (#32674940)
We don’t need to, our hegemony is already all of western europe
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Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by helge9210 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:27AM (#32673579)
Let's leave Palestinians for a second. Israeli settler living in occupied territories can vote in Israeli elections. Israeli living in Germany cannot. Both are living abroad, but have different laws applied to them. Having different legal systems for different groups of population is apartheid.
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