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The ultra-orthodox Jews tend to be very well educated, but that education tends to focus almost entirely on religious education. They are experts on theology, religious law, and to a lesser extent history, but learn little math and even less science. There are efforts to change this, but it is...

The people in the major "settlements?" They are Israelis. They vote in Israeli elections, follow Israeli law (to the extent that any Israeli bothers to follow laws that they disagree with), and are Israeli citizens. The major cities around Jerusalem are Israeli in everything but name. Outside...

There won't be a rise in nationalism among the people Israel annexes, because their nationality and religious fervor is already at a fever pitch. The Hilltop Youth are as radical as its possible for Jews to be right now, and even the Israeli government (a government dominated by right wingers...

Not really. The Israelis have gotten really good at thwarting terror attacks. That's why the terror attacks of today are quite rare, and tend to use knives rather than bombs. Yes, having an entire family getting murdered down to the last man woman and child is awful, but at least buses and cafes...

Its not an issue of which culture is most dominant. The black community is still dealing with systemic issues which make living let alone thriving in modern America difficult if not impossible. Are there special people talented or lucky enough to overcome those things? Yes. But the vast majority...

Racism is one of the forms by which power is expressed. If all the people in power look like you, and you want to keep it that way, you prevent people who don't look like you from voting. Of course those patterns of oppression are something the oppressed want to identify and destroy. Freedom...

That may be the case legally, but optics and ethics say different. Hamas has their main military command center in the basement of Gaza's biggest hospital. Its been there through three wars. The Israelis certainly could have bombed the place and destroyed many of Hamas's senior officers and...

Since Hamas fires from UN schools and mosques, that's a great way to actually commit the war crimes that they are accused of. I feel the need to reiterate, the Israelis don't want to exterminate the Palestinians. They don't want to slaughter thousands of civilians whose only crime is being...

I agree with the above. Even if Israel were willing to commit the sort of campaign you are talking about, effectively flattening every structure and leaving millions of Palestinians homeless and dying of exposure and starvation, which they most emphatically are unwilling to do, it wouldn't work...

Not sure what parts specifically you want links to, but I am willing to try and find some articles if you can be more specific. As for your sister's beliefs? They are sadly quite common among people who know absolutely nothing about the region or the history of the Jewish people other than what...

That would be an incredibly bad idea, even if were feasible. The reason that Israel is currently so against an independent Palestinian state in area A is because of the lessons of the Gaza withdrawal. in 2005 Israel uprooted 8k+ Israelis who were living in Israeli towns in Gaza. They left behind...

Of interest, a majority of Israel's Jewish population is currently Mizrachi, which are Jews expelled from Arab countries post 1948. The large groups came from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Yemen, and later Turkey. Many of Israel's earliest (and most lauded) spies were Mizrachi, because they were...