Funding means more healthcare professionals, which means fewer infant death.
Or do you believe doctors just go around murdering babies for run, and so should be avoided?
In 2003, Benjamin Netanyahu opined that if the percentage of Arab citizens of Israel rises above its current level of about 20 percent, Israel would not be able to retain a Jewish demographic majority, the basis of Israel’s self-definition as a “Jewish democratic state”.
Comments like this make it easy to believe that the death rates are much higher then they need to be, and that people in the Israeli Goverment would be happy to see the infant mortality rate actually go up again for the Arab Israeli citizens.
So, you will have to excuse me when I say that I don’t believe there isn’t more that can be done.
magnet
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If it were that simple, then Biden is actively killing women. Because he could always fund more health care professionals, which would mean fewer breast cancer deaths.
In the real world, it’s not that simple.
So, your argument is that more funding would not help, and that everything is as good as it can be?
That health care workers are doing there best with less then 1% of the the healthcare budget being used to fund Arab communities build and maintain healthcare facilities? Keep in mind, the Israeli system is more closely akin to system we see in Europe or Canada, then the United States.
In any case, when Benny says that Arabic Israelis are a threat to Israeli, then I believe he means it. When he says that a population over 20% is bad for Israeli, I believe he means it. So, when you say that more cannot be done, I have to wonder whether it’s true, or because the some members of the Israeli have an active interest in keeping the population down.
Sorry you can make spurious claims all you like, but I will take the words spoken by the Prime Minister over some on Substantiated claims of ‘we are doing the best we can’. If there is anything I learned after 4 years of Trump, when some one says the quiet part out loud, believe it.
Don’t tell me Israel gives a shit about Palestinian health when they’re out there bombing their hospitals.
magnet
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When did he say that infant mortality is the solution?
There are people who imply that Alabama is bringing the rest of America down. For instance, you.
Should we conclude that people who think like you are responsible for Alabama’s high infant mortality?
Arab Israelis are not the same as Palestinians.
I take it, you don’t every both clicking on links provided by people that disagree with you, do you? But in this case, I’m just reading between the lines.
Here are a few more pieces from that asshole
In 2010, Netanyahu warned in a government meeting that a Negev “without a Jewish majority” would pose “a palpable threat”.[21] In February 2014, then Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid said failure to establish a Palestinian state would leave Israel facing a demographic threat that could undermine its Jewish and democratic nature.[22]
The guy honestly wants to make sure that not too many Arabs are born. That’s one of his goals “To keep a Jewish Majority”
magnet
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That’s quite a leap of logic.
By the same logic, when Democrats say they want reduce the political power red states, they must mean they want to reduce their population. And that explains why Mississippi has nearly three times the infant mortality of Massachusetts.
I mean, look at all the federal money we send to New England medical centers compared to Mississippi medical centers. There is only one rational conclusion: Democrats want babies in Mississippi to die.
Likewise, someone might naively think that Netanyahu wants to increase the fertility rates of Jews, but we know better. He is acting just like the Democrats, and all evidence clearly points to baby-murdering.
Except, political power isn’t done through population, except in extreme situations. So, its an apples and oranges situation.
You have to be real twisted to think that comparison holds up at all.
magnet
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What?? How do you think we assign electoral votes to a state?
Mostly by Senate seats, otherwise, Wyoming would be shit out of luck.
Oh, and by allowing people to actually get a seat, otherwise places like DC and Puerto Rico would be represented.
Its not a parliamentary system, unlike Israel.
magnet
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Not even close. You could eliminate the Senate contribution to the electoral college, and the outcome would have been the same.
I don’t know if you were paying attention, but Democrats fought a huge legal battle against Trump over the Census. They care about counting population properly because it matters, for both the Presidency and for the House. It matters a lot.
Techinically, @magnet is right. The Israel Government makes it really hard for people from the West Bank and Gaza to get Israeli citizenship. The Government can’t allow to many Arabs to become citizens, are ruin their Jewish Ethno state.
Aceris
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I can’t find that reported in any major western outlets, so I’m going to say fake news.
magnet
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The Israeli government treats Palestinians horrendously. No argument from me.
But we are talking about something else. It’s like comparing Iranian-Americans and Iranians. The US intentionally kills innocent Iranian children all the time. It mistreats Iranian-Americans, but it doesn’t intentionally kill their innocent children.
There is the fact that Israel closed down the border to Gaza, which makes it hard to get journalists over there.
Aceris
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Oddly you don’t mention this was due to coronavirus and that Egypt did the same.
The reason does not change the fact though, does it? There are few western journalists in Gaza because of the closed border, so you won’t be able to get a lot of Western sources to confirm what is or is not happening there.
Regardless of the immediate tactical situation–I mean, no matter the strategic or moral context, if you are getting attacked with rockets you are going to respond to stop it–it seems incontrovertible that the Israeli occupation of lands seized in the 1967 war is the root of the problem. And that occupation has roots itself going back to 1948, when by pretty much all modern historical accounts Ben Gurion and the Jewish Agency → Israeli government consciously engaged in ethnic cleansing to create a viable Jewish state. There are viable arguments for why they did that, and while there are no pure and holy exemplars on either side I think you can make an argument that the Israelis had little choice in some of the things they did. At least, you can make the case for their actions being something far different than just racial violence. But in the end, you can’t really get away from the fact that the state of Israel came into being only because it was able to eradicate Palestinian presences in areas that were inconvenient or strategically worrisome. Those attitudes have persisted in many ways, and after 1967 the combination of the understandable desire for strategic depth and the perhaps understandable but much more problematic desire for a culturally homogenous polity turned what was a relatively simple question of international law into one of the most intractable problems of our time.
