If Trump shuts Mexico border US will run out of avocados in three weeks

The “ethnostate”* of Israel does use non-citizen Arab labour, in just the manner you’d expect. Israeli consumers have had the entire postwar era and then some to come to terms with the fact that life would be more expensive for them if they wanted to exist as a nation-state. Americans foolish enough to want an ethnostate have spent that same period enjoying relatively low consumer prices, especially once their moneyCon allies started union-busting and cutting workplace safety standards domestically.

When Mexico starts lobbing rocket attacks over the border on a regular basis or conducts suicide bombings in the U.S. in the name of the reconquista you can talk about Israel’s Likud programme becoming a policy model for the U.S. and other Western countries. Otherwise you’ll just have to wait for Israel’s very unusual and unique situation to resemble the norm in North America and Europe rather than wasting everyone’s time pushing for the reverse.

[* scare quotes because that was not the original Labour and “political” Zionist ideals (both of which embraced internationalism) but rather the product of right-wingers in Likud pandering to their Identitarian and religious fundie Nativist yahoo allies and – to be fair – Israel’s neighbouring ultra-nationalist and religious fundie Nativist yahoo enemies. If Israel is an “ethnostate”, it’s by the choice of some domestic bigots and by necessity caused by some foreign bigots.

This takes us off-topic, so create another topic if you want to debate it (I don’t – just characterising your “just so” description of Israel as fallacious and ill-informed)]

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