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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (1734)	6/9/2001 8:45:17 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Look Gustave, I am willing to participate in these discussions, but you must avoid being offensive or else, I will not be your interlocutor. Any attempt at comparing Zionism with Fascism will not be tolerated, and I will simply not respond to you. As to social stratification, the author is mistaking differential economic conditions with different levels of citizenship, all citizens have the same rights and the same opportunities, except the duty (also a right) to serve in the army, which is not forced upon Arabs. The reason was very simple, at the founding of the state, Arab nations where enemies of the state and there was a movement within the Israeli society that it will be immoral to force Israeli Arabs to have to fight against neighboring Arabs, possibly against blood relatives, thus the exemption from military service. You turn a moral consideration into a racial differentiation, quite ironic. By the way, Arab are allowed to volunteer to the Army, and Druzes (a northern Islamic sect differing from the Sunni and Shiites and persecuted by both for a thousand years) have served in the Army since the founding of the IDF. As for: "A rigid hierarchy, highly racialized both within and between religious or national groups, orchestrates Israeli social life.", this is pure lies, not even distortion, but pure lies. I challenge you to quote a single law that grant one Jew more rights than another. It is not even an "accepted practice". I know that since I have two brothers in Israel one married a charming Yemenite lady (born in Israel in the 30' and her parents came to Palestine in the late 1920', with many Yemenite Muslims to find work. By the way, those Yemenite Arabs became "Palestinians"). The other brother married A Syrian Jewess, also a pre 1940 sabra. In every society, there are some strange people thinking that they are somehow superior to others, gosh, it used to be in the US, not more than 20 years ago that if you were not a WASP, you could not run a bank. Israel is ver much like the US, a melting pot, it takes time to eradicate socio economic differential conditions. Zeev