Israeli apartheid by any other name still stinks By: Cathryn Atkinson (9 replies) March 4, 2010 - 2:46am
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Sorry, what is going on in Israel is not Apartheid. Palestinians are not Israelis, and are not entitled to the rights and privileges of Israeli citizenship. This is the fallacy of the Apartheid argument -- that Palestinians (ergo non-Jews) are being systemically discriminated against because they cannot walk into Israel and do things that Israelis do.
**SORRY** Palestinians are not Israelis. The goal of calling Israel an Apartheid state is a circuous attempt at calling Palestinians Israeli citizens. If they are citizens, then the West Bank and Gaza are not disputed or occupied territories, because they are occupied only by Israelis. You can't have it both ways, although I'm sure this logic won't prevent you or anyone else from trying anyway.
What makes calling Israel an Aprtheid state an act of anti-semitism, is that there is a complete concurrent neglect of the real Apartheid states that surround it. We can start with Saudi Arabia and Iran as two states that iconify what Apartheid really means. There is no apparent concern of the Apartheid style laws and systemic abuse by those states. Where is Saudi Arabia Anti-Apartheid Week? Where is Iran lies to the International Community to Illegally Produce Nuclear Weapons Week? And it doesn't stop there, those two states are Apartheids in many nefarious ways, but lips are mum amongst the human rights "advocates" most loudly critical of Israel because of its human rights treatment of non-citizens who continue to agitate militarily against Israel.