>>2768987In you second paragraph you try to make the point that the settler-colonial state USA is different from Israel in the respect that the former was founded on enlightenment principles while the latter was not. This is false. They were both hypocritically founded on enlightenment principles which were progressive for their time.
The USAs declaration of independence declares that the people of the colonies had the right to fight off their British masters because they violated the principles which they valued: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,". That is
-all men are equal,
-they have inherent rights (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness),
-to secure these rights men form governments which derive their powers the consent of the governed (democracy).
The drafting of the constitution of course excluded any blacks, native Americans and women. Following decades would show the government of the USA betraying all of these high minded (for the time) founding principles (blacks, native Americans and other ethnic minority groups were not equal before the law and were excluded from those inherent rights thus no true democracy existed; native Americans were systematically exterminated). And to the present day, as you are doing now, desperate believers in USA exceptionalism refused to look at reality and instead pointed at various texts to defend the reputation of the USA, and themselves from the cognitive dissonance.
Israels declaration of independence similarly paid lip service to ideas of equal rights for all. Paragraph 13 states: "THE STATE OF ISRAEL … will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the princip
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