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tweakabelle -> RE: Israeli Settlements Violate Fourth Geneva Convention (2/4/2013 3:52:35 AM)
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And finally, please refrain from the sad tired ántisemtite' BS. Apologists for Israeli apartheid do not possess the right to smear their opponents as racists - it merely advertises their own ignorance and hypocrisy.
You make outrageous claims that anyone with a passing knowledge of the world knows to be untrue. What possible conclusion should be drawn from that?
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What is not to condemn about a State - Israel - that practices apartheid, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, child abduction torture and murder (to list just a few matters, there are lots more) as part of official State policy?
Israel does not practice apartheid. Arab citizens of Israel have full rights. Isrel does not practice ethnic cleansing. If they wanted to empty the territories they could have long finished the deed and in reality have evacuated from a large section of the territories and given the palestinian's self rule to most of the rest. As to the rest your claims are exagerations and/or simply the way war works.
According to that well know authority on apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC), Israel does practice apartheid. Their experience of South African apartheid gives them a lot more credibility than the self serving self interested claims of Zionists and their camp followers.
Here is an excerpt from an article describing the reactions of Veteran African Congress members after visiting the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
"Veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle said last night that the restrictions endured by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories was in some respects worse than that imposed on the black majority under white rule in South Africa.
Members of a 23-strong human-rights team of prominent South Africans cited the impact of the Israeli military’s separation barrier, checkpoints, the permit system for Palestinian travel, and the extent to which Palestinians are barred from using roads in the West Bank.
After a five-day visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories, some delegates expressed shock and dismay at conditions in the Israeli-controlled heart of Hebron. Uniquely among West Bank cities, 800 settlers now live there and segregation has seen the closure of nearly 3,000 Palestinian businesses and housing units. Palestinian cars (and in some sections pedestrians) are prohibited from using the once busy streets.
“Even with the system of permits, even with the limits of movement to South Africa, we never had as much restriction on movement as I see for the people here,” said an ANC parliamentarian, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge of the West Bank. “There are areas in which people would live their whole lifetime without visiting because it’s impossible".
http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/03/israel-and-apartheid-is-it-a-fair-comparison/
This quote from the virulent supporter of Apartheid and prime minister of South Africa, Hendrik Verwoerd really ought to settle the matter. He noted in 1961 that Jews “took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. In that I agree with them, Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.”
“Israel and South Africa: A Natural Alliance,” by Robert B. Ashmore, The Link, October-November 1988, Volume 21, Issue 4. (my bold)
So both proponents and opponents of South African apartheid (in all its horrors) agree unequivocally that the Israeli system is an apartheid system too.
You can also look up any of the innumerable reports from independent media or NGOs confirming Israeli apartheid. Here's a few to just to get you started.
Here's the UN on the subject: http://mondoweiss.net/2012/05/un-committee-israeli-system-tantamount-to-apartheid.html
Here's a BBC report http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6390755.stm
Here's NGOs: http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/ngos_and_ngo_activists_collaborate_on_israel_apartheid_week_
Here's a finding of apartheid on water rights; http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/amnesty_s_water_report_israel_apartheid_allegations
There is another mountain of supporting evidence from all quarters (including Israeli sources) to confirm the accuracy of the charge that Israel practices apartheid on the West Bank.
What other term is available to describe the system on the West Bank whereby there are different political legal and land rights for Israelis and Palestinians, where Palestinians enjoy 25% the water that Israeli colonists get, where there are separate educational, legal and political systems and entitlements operating in the same territory and demarcated only on the basis of race? Where there are Jewish only settlements/colonies and Jewish only roads? Where one person gets a vote and another doesn't - based entirely on race. Where one person is automatically a citizen based on race and the indigenous population is denied citizenship - again based entirely on race. i could go on and on but you get the picture.
There is really no alternative but to describe the system that Israel has instigated in the West Bank as apartheid - one of the most evil systems of theft and violence ever imagined into being.
It is apartheid. There is no other way of describing it. For anyone to deny this reality for reasons as inconsequential of political convenience and expediancy cannot alter that. It does say an awful lot about the special treatment Israeli apologists are insisting on for one people - Israelis - at the direct abuse dispossession and exploitation of another - Palestinians. If that isn't racist then the term has no meaning.
Defending Israel means defending Israeli apartheid. Defending apartheid means that a person doesn't have a clue what racism is or doesn't care. Either way defending Israeli apartheid means that one automatically loses any moral right to describe Israel's innumerable critics as 'racists'.
To engage in such behaviour is ignorant contemptible and utterly utterly irreducibly racist.
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