Israeli arms firms, such as Rafael, and the Israeli defence ministry remain eligible for the EU’s ‘Horizon’ science-programme grant
Von der Leyen’s proposed trade sanctions could be adopted by a qualified majority of EU countries, but Germany and Italy were among those who blocked them, even at the height of the Gaza war.
Ah the Western immigrants! Of course, slowly bit by bit the hate against the Jews always ends up showing up…
Quick history refreshers:
there were always Jews in Palestine (historically just a synonym of Israel), there were even Jews there before there were any Arabs!
more Israelis descend from Jews expelled from Arab countries after the WWII (a genocide we tend to forget) than from Jews who survived genocide in Europe, so yeah, most Israelis are and always have been Middle eastern.
20% of Israelis are even Arab, surprise. It’s a multicultural state.
PS: but should we fear Middle eastern migrants becoming too influential in our politics, then? Or migrants in general?
How long do you have to live in the west until you become western? Jews definitely had a large degree of separation from the Christian majority populations, but it still clearly had an impact on their way of thinking, even if not necessarily on their genetic makeup.
My dear, if you read my comment you would know I don’t deny that Jews who survived the Holocaust in Europe were Westerners. They simply don’t make up the majority of the population in Israel. Most Israelis are middle eastern of Middle eastern descent, even if you count the descendants of the European migrants as western… which is a bit silly since they’re born and raised in Israel for a few generations in the meantime.
So yeah, it’s quite ignorant and quite racist to suggest that Israel is run by western migrants.