A poll conducted by an Israeli organisation has revealed that the vast majority of Israeli Jews believe there are “no innocents” in the Gaza Strip. aChord, a research group linked to Hebrew University specialising in social psychology, said 76 percent of the Jewish public partially or fully agree that “there are no innocents in Gaza”.

The survey found that even among Israeli opposition voters, 47 percent fully supported the claim, while among Jewish opposition voters, a majority also agrees with the claim. Researcher Ron Gerlitz described the results of the survey as “difficult findings” that indicated attitudes that fed into acceptance of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab sentiment in Israel has been growing in recent years, targeting both Palestinians in the occupied territories and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Last week, a Palestinian bus driver in Israel was attacked by a group of Jewish youths shouting “death to Arabs”, the latest incident in a string of racist attacks on Palestinian citizens of Israel. The bus driver, Mohammed Abd al-Hadi, told Ynet the incident happened after he asked the young passengers to stop screaming and vandalising the vehicle. “They insulted me and shouted racist sayings like ‘Jew - good; Arab - son of a removed’ and ‘death to Arabs’,” he said.

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    regular people in israel are told constantly that muslim people hate them because they are jewish. it’s the narrative that is used every time they hear about rockets flying over. they live in the old testament. they think this is the only way that things could ever be, because of some curse put on them by god.

    the middle east needs atheism.

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      regular people in israel

      They are Euroanglo-Zionazi Settler-Colonialists.

      Euro, because most of them are European, most previously came from Eastern Europe, and on top of that, the white settlers dominate the political, social and economic aspects of the entity. Nowadays they come from all over, but the largest influx is still from Europe, the aforementioned dominating group is the same.

      Anglo, because USonian, Australian, Canadian, etc… settlers just couldn’t get enough out of settling in land that don’t belong to them, so they want a take-two.

      Zionist, because the settlers needed a crutch to justify their presence, their occupation and the existence of the entity, the settlers chose Judaism for their symbolism (don’t get it twisted, Zionism is not a religious belief), and bastardized the living hell out of it to create an artificial identity of their own and to purposefully conflate the religion with their racist, white supremacist, colonial beliefs.

      Nazi, because Zionism is the successor to Nazism (again, nothing to do with Judaism).

      Settler, because they’re occupiers forcing their presence upon the indigenous’ land via expulsion, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc… to make way for more settlers.

      Colonialist, because they’re stealing the land’s resources from its rightful people, because they are trying to canonize the Indigenous’ food, art, way of life, history, etc… as part of their own superficial “culture”, because they’re revising history to justify even more settler-colonialist behaviors described here.

      I’m saying all of this because there are no “regular people” in the entity. At best, they are reservists. To monolithize the Euroanglo-Zionazi entity with every other country from the “Middle East”, then suggest that religion (a HUGE contributing factor to the actual culture of West Asia) should be erased from the collective consciousness of Levantine and Gulf Muslims, Jews (not European Zionazis) and Christians whom at one point co-existed just fine* without the West’s meddling, all because of the actions of settler-colonialists, is downright ignorant, knowing all of the previously mentioned descriptors.


      * There were some minor problems (relatively speaking), but none of them justify Westerners playing dress-up and going into land that don’t belong to them.

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      Israelis are mostly Atheists. They have been the worst disaster a long time. The middle east does not need atheism. They need decolonization.