If barbos' posts are representative for the mainstream Russian viewpoint, then the hope for an eventually de-Putinized, peaceful, and democratic Russia feels completely in vain for the foreseeable future.
I would say that it is a bit more complicated than that half of the country preferred to go with Russia. It was more that younger Ukrainians all across Ukraine wanted a Western future rather than one with Russia. As time went by, Russia saw that the Ukrainian electorate really wasn't into...
At which point does it become a grand conspiracy theory to assert that what all the media and the NGOs report from Gaza is not true, but a hoax perpetrated by Hamas?
I am not sure that is the whole story. The Israeli Druze are loyal to Israel, but the Druze in Syria and Lebanon tend not to be friendly of Israel. The inhabitants of the Golan Heights (mostly Druze) have largely rejected Israeli citizenship because they consider themselves to be Syrians.
Have you ever looked at Israeli public opinion polls?
Nearly half of Jewish Israelis want to expel Arabs, survey shows
Or listened to Netanyahu's statements?
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is ‘not a state of all its citizens’
Look at your own country. If a politician said that the US is not...
Did you read te article? It primarily argues that Israel and the Palestinian territories are de facto one state because Israel controls all of the land between the river and the sea. It is however not a state in which all inhabitants enjoy equal rights.
Israel’s One-State Reality
Reading this article really changed my perception of the conflict. It retrospect it shouldn't have, because it was obvious all along, I was just too stupid to notice.
I would like for those here more supportive of Israel to read it and comment on it.
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