JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

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    Israel is definitely not an ethnostate. It has 20% Arabs. How many Jews does Palestine have?

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      Calling a state an Ethnostate doesn’t mean you’re saying the population is entirely of one ethnicity. It means one ethnicity is given a privileged status above all others.

      Israel was founded when Zionists purged Palestinians from their homes and forced them into Gaza and the West Bank in order to create a Jewish majority state. That makes Israel an ethnostate by definition.

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      Israel has a law requiring Jewish people maintain demographic majority.

      It is the definition of an ethno state.

      Not only that, but it is a removed supremacist ethno state.

      Look up how they treat the Beta Israelis.