Yosef Haddad, a Arab, born and raised in the country of Israel, explains to the Irish government what Israel really stands for:
Israel stands for religious,
secular, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, LGBTQ, and disabled residents.
Israel stands for the rule of
law, where a Supreme Court Judge is an Israeli Arab, and where a previous Arab
Supreme Court Judge, Salim Joubran sent a Jewish president and a Jewish prime
minister to prison when they committed crimes.
Where an IDF soldier who shot a
terrorist in violation of the code of conduct is convicted and sent to prison.
Israel stands for freedom of
expression, where members of the government can openly criticise their state,
including in Arabic, in the halls of the parliament.
Where thousands of Israelis can
protest against the government or against legislation they oppose without fear
of arrest or murder.
Israel stands for free speech,
where the press can, and does, openly criticise the government without fear of
arrest and persecution – unlike in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israel stands for humanity,
where the IDF itself launched a hospital for the sole purpose of providing
humanitarian aid and treatment to Syrians injured in the Syrian Civil War,
despite the fact that Syria is an enemy country.
It stands for providing
humanitarian aid to Gaza even when Hamas bombs their own humanitarian aid
convoy which occurred in May 2021.
It stands for granting tens of
thousands of work permits to Palestinians who work every day within Israeli
borders for a much higher salary than they would ever earn in the Palestinian
territories.
It stands for forming new
alliances with Arab states across the region for the benefit of both peoples
such as the Abraham Accords.
It stands for granting full
citizenship to the Arabs who remained, like my family.
It stands for taking chances and
painful sacrifices for peace over and over again, even when it ends with over
15,000 rockets being fired at our civilians from Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
It stands for spending billions
of dollars to build the Iron Dome defensive system to protect Arab and Jewish
lives while Hamas is spending millions of dollars on rockets and tunnels
It stands for continuing to
provide emergency medical treatment to Palestinians knowing that some of them
have abused such permits to carry out terrorist activity in the past.
It stands for Arab doctors and
nurses saving the lives of Jewish patients in hospitals, and Jewish doctors and
nurses saving the lives of Arab patients.
It stands for the Arabs and Jews
who stand side by side every day as citizens of the state of Israel.
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