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| Former Mossad chief: Israel enforcing apartheid system against Palestinians |
| 2023-09-07 |
| [Aljazeera] A former head of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has said the country is enforcing an apartheid system against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Tamir Pardo has become the latest former senior Israeli official to claim Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to apartheid, a reference to the system of racial separation in South Africa that ended in 1994. Perhaps Tamir should consider moving to utopian city of Johannesburg. "There is an apartheid state here," Pardo said in an interview with the Associated Press news agency, published on Wednesday. "In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state," Pardo said, joining a small but growing list of retired officials to endorse an idea that remains largely on the fringes of Israeli discourse and international diplomacy but has gained growing acceptance within human rights circles. Given Pardo’s background, the comments carry special weight in security-obsessed Israel. Pardo, who served as head of Israel’s spy agency from 2011 to 2016, would not say if he held the same beliefs while heading the Mossad. Learned to live with guilt has he ? The former spy chief said that he believed that the question of the Palestinians is among the country’s most pressing issues — above Iran’s nuclear programme, seen by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an existential threat. Pardo said that as Mossad chief, he repeatedly warned Netanyahu that he needed to decide what Israel’s borders were or risk the destruction of a state for the Jews. "Israel needs to decide what it wants. A country that has no border has no boundaries," Pardo said. They have already decided that "good fences make good neighbors." Responding to Pardo’s comments, Netanyahu’s Likud party said that the ex-Mossad chief "should be ashamed". |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 Oh yeah, an Apartheid System: Because Jews can live in Palestine without being killed. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-09-07 12:34 |
| #14 There is nothing good about any doctrine of any ""Palestinian" or so self shamed. |
| Posted by: newc 2023-09-07 11:45 |
| #13 Specific case here is Israeli elites rebelling against Bibi's goverment because USG told them to Indeed. Donald Trump is America’s Bibi. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-09-07 11:41 |
| #12 Communism, collectivism, social justice, equity. No matter what color lipstick is put on that pig, it's a formula for equal distribution of misery, except for a small cadre that runs the shitshow. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-09-07 10:08 |
| #11 And we see how productive and functional South Africa became with the end apartheid. More equitable? Perhaps (there's doubts on that, what with the efforts to punish anyone who's profitable). Fact is, if the people who keep the wheels turning in a society can't be protected from those who feel entitled to take whatever they want it's all gonna stop. Civilization runs on inertia, but if no one is pushing it along, friction will take over. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-09-07 10:05 |
| #10 #9 In our case it's not money it is - almost genetic level programing "Don't anger the Gentiles". |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 08:05 |
| #9 Ref #7: However, all of the above are general principles. Specific case here is Israeli elites rebelling against Bibi's goverment because USG told them too. Yes! Makes we question the ability of migrants to pay the cartels huge amounts of USD to gain entry to the US. The Epstein question again; where do these migrants obtain huge sums of money? NGO'S are reimbursed by the US Government on this end, it might follow that...... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-09-07 07:57 |
| #8 In PA controlled areas you have to separate potential terrorists from settlers. Either the PA does it (which it usually doesn't do) or the IDF has to do it. It wasn't as great a problem when the PA areas had fewer weapons. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-09-07 07:27 |
| #7 However, all of the above are general principles. Specific case here is Israeli elites rebelling against Bibi's goverment because USG told them too. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 05:37 |
| #6 #3 That's exactly the trouble. They are tribal, eusocial in fact, we (and you) are not. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 05:21 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-09-07 05:18 |
| #4 ^You'll have to do the same if USA is to survive. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 05:11 |
| #3 /\ The only real solution is ethnic cleansing. Yes, the tribal solution. Well underway in many regions of Afrika today. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-09-07 05:06 |
| #2 If we had apartheid, terror attacks would not be a daily event. p.s. Apartheid is a stop-gap measure. The only real solution is ethnic cleansing. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 04:59 |
| #1 Pardo, who served as head of Israel’s spy agency from 2011 to 2016, would not say if he held the same beliefs while heading the Mossad. Speaking freely, now that his pension is secured. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-09-07 04:53 |