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But all of this is not 'because most of them are Jews', but because they are Europeans.
In fact, very little is known about the fact that most of the non-European Jews living in Israel (those originally from Morocco, Yemen, Ethiopia and elsewhere) are treated like second-class citizens, or even worse.
Israel is a European 'outpost' in the Middle East. The mindset of most of its inhabitants is predominantly European. Talk to people in Tel Aviv, Haifa, even Beersheba as well as in the non-religious parts of the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, and you will most likely come to the same conclusion.
The 'political awareness' of the white, European Israeli Jews, is precisely on the same level as that of the Europeans, meaning near zero:
The U.K. may have more military bases and outposts abroad than any other country on earth. The British military is involved in several 'projects' - military occupations and attempts to overthrow foreign governments. These 'projects' are killing millions of innocent people, annually. But go to Tate Modern or the Covent Garden Opera House, or just to one of those countless funky nightclubs in London, and try to engage people in conversations about their nation's murderous legacy. They will laugh at you, or confront you, or simply would not understand what are you talking about, and why.
Do the same in France, and most likely, the results would be identical. France is involved in the neo-colonialist projects in Africa, and millions of 'lower humans' are being ruined in the process. But how many French people know, and if they do, how many of them care, let alone try to stop it. Look at the Yellow Vests: how many of them are demanding justice for the French neo-colonies?
The mindset of Israelis is very similar.
Take Tel Aviv - the biggest city in Israel: it is one of the richest places on earth, with infrastructure better than that in North America or the United Kingdom, with cultural institutions like the Museum of Modern Art, a masterpiece built by the architect Preston Scott Cohen. The green areas of Tel Aviv, public spaces, all this could rank it as one of the most livable cities on earth.
But for whom? At what price to the enslaved, exiled and exploited people of the region?
Does it sound familiar? Like all those museums, cathedrals, parks, public hospitals, universities that Europe constructed on the bones, on the corpses and misery of the Congolese, Indonesian, Indian and other people. All for the benefit of the Europeans, but paid for by the slave labor of "The Others", as well as by the looted resources of "The Others".
Talk about all of this in Madrid, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon or London. The chances are, you will not be understood. Chances are, you will get confronted: thrown out of cab or a pub, insulted, or even physically attacked (it happened to me in London, for instance).
Talk about it in Haifa or Tel Aviv, and the outcome would be similar; a bit milder (in Israel there is greater number of self-critical people than in Europe), but those who may disagree with you could be extremely unpleasant, and sometimes even violent.
And then, when all the other arguments are exhausted, the Holocaust would almost certainly be mentioned.
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