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Flattening Gaza is one of Biden's accomplishments
Flattening Gaza is one of Biden's accomplishments
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Yes and both are authoritarian. KSA is a monarchy whose legitimacy comes through Allah. China is an authoritarian republic. Republics derive their legitimacy from the masses rather than from a god or a familial line. Republics aren't inherently democratic.
If you are going to reply that China isn't authoritarian pleade explain why the people cannot choose to shift the state from Maoism should they want to.
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China is mostly authoritarian, only Democratic on local levels and people have limited influence on policy despite the crackdowns and censorship.
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/political-participation-china-whats-allowed-under-xi
Still a far cry from the human rights abuses of the Absolute Monarchy of Saudi Arabia and certainly the Apartheid State of Israel, which has always been a fascist nation.
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Israel has free and fair elections. It has always been an opressive/imperialistic nation but it is not in any way fascist unless your definition is "government I don't like"
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Israel was founded on ethnic cleansing and has never stopped being an Apartheid. Zionism has always been a fascist ideology. Elections are not free and fair when huge amounts of the indigenous population under the government's control have no representation.
- Page 8, The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948
- 10 myths of Israel by Ilan Pappe, summerized and full book
- Transfer Committee and the JNF led to Forced Displacement of 100,000 Palestinians throughout the mandate.
- 1967 war: Haaretz, Forward
- Israel Martial Law and Defence (Emergency) Regulations practiced in the occupied territories after 1967
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You keep using the term "fascism" and its derivations incorrectly, why? Are you completely unfamiliar with what the philosophy is or is it hard fir you-to realize democracies can be bad too?
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I'm not. Zionism is a fascist ideology. If you think ethnic cleansing isn't inherently fascist, I don't know what to tell you besides you're wrong. There is no rigid definition of Fascism
Why do you think Einstein and Arendt considered the actions of Zionism fascist?
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Ethnic cleansing is an action humans have engaged in since they recognized ethnicity as a concept. Fascism is a political philosophy that comes about as a response to Marx's works. There are thousands of years of ethnic cleansings that have nothing to do with fascism.
Fascism is authoritarian in nature and Israel is not a fascist state. There are no fascist democracies.
What a physicist thinks of a political system has the same value as a political philosopher's take on physics.
Edit: you are entirely misrepresenting what the 1948 NYT letter was about which is a rejection of a singular party in Israel and not the state of Israel. Your link does not have Arendt calling Israel fascist but comparing a specific party to fascists. Why are you misrepresenting the truth here?
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"free and fair elections" that half the population aren't allowed to vote in.
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