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A study by the Bertelsmann Foundation, published on Friday, confirms a trend that predates October 7. Only 36% of respondents today express a positive opinion of Israel, which is 10 points less than in 2021.

Friedrich Merz, made unequivocal statements. “It must be very clear again that Germany is not in a gray area, but that it stands very clearly alongside Israel,” he warned during a speech at the Körber Foundation on January 23. He also promised to “put an end to this more or less effective embargo on arms exports to Israel” and deemed it “inconceivable” to prevent "an Israeli prime minister from visiting Germany or elsewhere in Europe

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    The borders Israel has with actual proper states are actually relativly secure for the last decades.

    Israel has been occupying land in Syria since last December, so not quite, but also consider: These borders are stable because they’re with large states that are willing and capable of fighting back if they’re attacked. Egypt and Syria forced through this paradigm shift with the October war.

    Besides Lebanon that is and even there the problem is not the Lebanese government.

    The problem is not with the Lebanese government because the Lebanese government doesn’t do shit when their territorial integrity is violated. Remember that it was Hezbollah and other militias, not the Lebanese government, who fought Israel until it left Lebanon in 2000.

    Israel in theory gives Arabic citizens the same rights as Jewish citizens.

    Yes, but only in theory. Israeli discrimination against their Palestinians citizens is a lot less straightforward than what they do in Gaza and the West Bank, but iit’s a thing. The short of it is:

    Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley wrote in 2006 that Israeli Palestinians are “restricted to second-class citizen status when another ethnic group monopolizes state power” because of legal prohibitions on access to land, as well as the unequal allocation of civil service positions and per capita expenditure on educations between “dominant and minority citizens”.

    There’s also the Bedouin villages thing.

    Unfortunatly with Israel being attacked by Arabs on a regular bases, hatred can not be easily fixed.

    Please don’t legitimize Israel’s narrative that it’s always being unfairly attacked by evil Arabs. All attacks against Israel are blowback from its own reign of terror and ethnic cleansing over Palestinians. Israel is attacked by Arabs on a regular basis because it attacks Arabs on a regular basis, and they’re dealing out much more violence than they’re getting dealt in return.

    I honestly believe a proper peace deal is needed and the only realistic way to get that is to have a two state solution.

    I mean the one-state solution exists, but apparently rule 4 prevents me from talking about that around here so just look it up. In the case of a two-state solution, however, a lot of radical reform is going to be necessary on the Israeli side. Classic offenders like the Jewish National Fund obviously need to go, and a lot of systemic racism and legal and practical double standards will have to go. Againz a two-state solution is possible, but it cannot and must not leave Israel in its present state.