Because Iran is a fundamentalist theocracy where political candidates have to be approved by religious authorities? Like Gilead, only…you know…real? A country who's 'founding father' Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering Muslims worldwide to kill Salman Rushdie because he had the temerity to write something Islamic…
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Over a fifth of Israel's population is Arab, most of which are Muslim. They have full rights as citizens. When Israel took East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights (after being attacked first by its Arab neighbors), it offered citizenship to *all* inhabitants of said areas.
It is self-defense: Israel invaded Lebanon to stamp out a fundamentalist paramilitary group and antisemitic terrorist organization attacking Israeli citizens on Israeli soil because the barely-functioning Lebanese government wasn't up to the task.
Please, Hezbollah and Hamas fire thousands of rockets, not 'a couple', indiscriminately at civilian targets without warning. Serious military hardware (supplied by the likes of Iran) too. They fire their rockets from schools and mosques, because these fine organizations (both of which are explicitly antisemitic, not…
The IDF has effectively defended Israel from numerous wars of aggression by Lebanon and terrorist groups headquartered in Lebanon, a country which has for decades been ravaged by civil war and sectarian conflict and still can only be barely considered a functioning state.
You mean Israel's foreign policy towards its neighbors which have been waging unprovoked wars of aggression against it since 1948?
Israel is not an 'apartheid settler state'.
Yes, because Israel, a free, multi-faith democracy, a nation of laws and human rights, is entirely comparable to ISIS, a murderous death cult where Yezidis are sold per auction as sex-slaves and children are forced to watch live executions.
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'course I can: Jerry Brown.
What does any head of state do? Bind us together and serve as a symbol of national unity, speak for and to the nation, and represent us abroad.
A king or queen is a hereditary (that means 'inherits by right of birth') head of state, with all the rights, privileges and duties that entails. In the case of a modern constitutional monarchy, like my own country, the role is 99% ceremonial and completely non-political, and aforementioned rights, privileges and…
Nobody - do I need to explain the concept of 'monarchy' to you?
Yes, because countries like Norway, Denmark and Japan are such dystopian hellholes…
Both hemispheres, really.
And you Americans wonder why Trump was elected President.
Belgium isn't France's Canada - it's the Netherlands' Mexico.
Here in Amsterdam, we have an entire neighborhood dedicated to having sex with immigrants!