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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Campaign to Delegitimize Israel with the false charge of Apartheid |
| 2009-11-18 |
| Executive Summary If Israel's detractors can associate the Jewish movement for self-determination with the Apartheid South African regime, they will have done lasting and maybe irreparable damage. Yet the comparison of Israel to South Africa under white supremist rule has been utterly rejected by those with intimate understanding of the old Apartheid system. Israel is a multi-racial and multi-colored society, and the Arab minority actively participates in the political process. There are Arab parliamentarians, Arab judges including on the Supreme Court, Arab cabinet ministers, Arab heads of hospital departments, Arab university professors, Arab diplomats in the Foreign Service, and very senior Arab police and army officers. Incitement to racism in Israel is a criminal offence, as is discrimination on the basis of race or religion. The accusation is made that the very fact that Israel is considered a Jewish state proves an "Apartheid-like" situation. Yet the accusers have not a word of criticism against the tens of liberal democratic states that have Christian crosses incorporated in their flags, nor against the Muslim states with the half crescent symbol of Islam. For a Western state, with Jewish and Muslim minorities, to have Christmas as a national holiday is permissible, but for Israel to celebrate Passover as a national holiday is somehow racist. For various Arab states to denote themselves as Arab Republics is not objectionable. Zionism is perhaps the only national movement that has received explicit support and endorsement both from the League of Nations and from the United Nations. It was the League of Nations that approved the mandate for Palestine with its ringing endorsement of "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country." The real goal behind the Apartheid campaign is the denial of the legitimacy of the State of Israel and the determination that the only status the Jewish population in Israel can hope for is that of a "protected" ethnic minority in an Arab Palestinian state. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Oddly enough, Israelis are human, too. It has already been said that they do not engage in the morally reprehensible behaviour of the Palestinians or the other Arabs and this is very true. They did not steal the homes of their neighbors en masse. Their neighbors decided to clear out so that the Arab nations could kill EVERY ISRAELI and then let the Palestinians come back. Oh, and the Arabs are not particularly colored. In fact, they call themselves white and 'Caucasians' are yellow (this from a Lebanese man I met). |
| Posted by: Jame_Retief 2009-11-18 20:34 |
| #10 Hmmmmm one would think if you lived in "Isreal" you might know how to spell it....twice |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-11-18 19:16 |
| #9 The Israeli's may not be lilly white but they don't condone and applaud the deliberate targeting and cold blooded murder of the innocent like Syria and Iran do as a matter of National Policy via the Hezbollah and Hamas. They do not "Celebrate death" nor practice Human Sacrifices (i.e. Homicide Bombing) to their pathetic little god (who can't take even cartoons...) like the Islamists do. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-11-18 18:42 |
| #8 The moral equivalence is sickening. I will be willing to look critically at the Israelis once the Paleos realize blowing up civilian buses is abhorrent. And one or two nutcases don't count. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2009-11-18 17:26 |
| #7 The isrealis are NOT lilly white Very true. Half of them came from Arab countries, so their skin is the same colour as their former Arab neighbors, and a significant minority come from Africa -- like the Falashas of Ethiopia, who look just like their former neighbors. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-11-18 14:31 |
| #6 The isrealis are NOT lilly white Compred to their neighbours they certainly are. It has ever been a favorite tactic of the fascist/nazi/communist syspehisers to scream to high heavens for minor sins perpetrated by the good guys inn order to divert attention from what their friensds were doing. Let's think in how much those peopele havbe said or done about: 1) Discrimination and violence against Copts in Egypts 2) Violence agsint Christians by The Palestinians 3) Saudi Zrabia using white phosphorous on Shias. 4) Genocide of Balck populations in Sudan Did you notice that the only people who deserve these oghanization's sympathies are those who want to exterminate Jews? |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-11-18 11:40 |
| #5 Their neighbors all live in glass houses. People who live in glass houses should not attract counter-battery fire. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-11-18 10:51 |
| #4 Israel is an island? I did not know that. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2009-11-18 10:03 |
| #3 Every action has an equal and opposite reaction---which you would know if you weren't a moron 746. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-11-18 09:46 |
| #2 Nobody would claim that the Israelis are perfect. Their neighbors all live in glass houses. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-11-18 09:39 |
| #1 The isrealis are NOT lilly white when it comes to bigotry and discrimination. having lived in Egypt and Isreal I witnessed first hand the extreme prejudice that envelopes the region on both sides of the isle |
| Posted by: 746 2009-11-18 09:35 |