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‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down
When Iranian missiles began raining down on Israel, many residents scrambled for cover. Sirens wailed across the country as people rushed into bomb shelters.But for some Palestinian citizens of Israel – two million people, or roughly 21 percent of the population – doors were slammed shut, not by the force of the blasts and not by enemies, but by neighbours and fellow citizens.
Mostly living in cities, towns, and villages within Israel’s internationally recognised borders, many Palestinian citizens of Israel found themselves excluded from life-saving infrastructure during the worst nights of the Iran-Israel conflict to date.
Al Jazeera
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I grew up in rural Oklahoma and Arkansas. I know racists. I know bigots. But the most racist person I’ve ever encountered in my life was an Israeli.
If you can call it racism. It was more a primitive form of tribalism. Very rudimentary. Very limited and undeveloped. He didn’t believe anyone outside his narrow ethnic group was a human being.
This story is not hard to believe.