"Israeli Apartheid" a New guide for Beginners

I am so sick of these people blaming the holocaust for them doing what they are doing. Killing ,stealing and torture..you know what that sounds like?????Well didn't the Natzis do the same thing kill, steal, and torture. Israel are no better than any Natzi.Keep the Plalestinians are living in a state of aparthied.They need a passport to take a piss there.

Bad things happen to people, Maybe after 60 f ing years get over it. The Armianians don't bitch as much as these folks. It is history and thats all.

Bring both of your hands so you can count all the Jews who are still allowed to live in many of the Arab countries because they were exterminated or kicked out.
You will never call Saudi Arabia a nation whose entire policy is APARTHEID. No, you see, they are the ones who cleverly paid fifty million to N.Y. advertising agencies to build up anger against Israel. That helped the Saudis take away focus from upon themselves.
The Saudis will not work because they are too dignified to work, andthey are superior to all other people, even other Muslims. So, they bring in tens of thousands of workers from other countries. They live in a system that purposely segregates Saudis and non Saudis into the upper group and the lower groups. That is apartheid.
Yet, you ignore all that the Saudis do to their 3,100 political priisoners who have been tortured for more than four years and instead, you focus on waterboarding while Mr. Obama bows down to the Saudi King Abdullah. He bows while knowing that the Saudis have TENS of thousands of slaves today. Not, a thousand years ago, not three hundred years ago, but TODAY. Yet, Mr. Obama bows even while he is against slavery obviously.
Instead, they have you all repeating what you were suposed to say, "Israel is an apartheid country" even though Israel has members of the Parliament who are Arab Muslims and even cabinet ministers who are Arab Muslims.
Hey guys, try to find one single Jew in any Arab Muslim government. You can't, because all 22 Arab Muslim countries will not allow it. yet, you condemn Israel which definitely does allow Arab Muslims to serve in the government.
Also, You don't even mention one sentence about the three million Arab refugees who live in camps in Jordanand Lebanon. Those refugees are not even allowed to leave the locked down camps. yet, they have you focusing on Israel which not only opens the camps but gives them jobs and food.
The wealthy Arab Moslem nations give the "palestinians" who live in Jordan and Lebanon....nothing. Those refugees get zip, zilch, nada from the oil rich nations with their Arab Muslim brothers right next door and they also wil lnot allow them entry into their countries.
Those refugees are there because the Arab nations all announced that they were cominng in to take Israel over because the U.N. was wrong to vote for the country of Israel. They were told to run for their lives and they sure did, but Israel did not tell them that. Their own Moslem Arab brothers told them to run, and although they treid often to take over Israel, they never did.

i grew up during segregation of blacks and whites. I remember the Watts riots in the 60's. If you keep a certain group seperate from you, it makes them angry. If I were black during those days I would be angry also. In thought this was Apartheid in Los Angeles. Im ashamed that it was allowed. I don't blame any group that is treated this way to riot, and in the terms of Palestine I don't blame them for the way have to take care of their anger.If you keep an animal in a cage no food no freedom, no covering like a home. You will be attacted.

An imbecile that accuses people of anti-Semitism when those people are criticising Israel's policies toward the Palestinian population is nothing but a hateful anti-Semite themself.
Idiots like that will be the downfall of the Jewish state and are harmful to Jewish people everywhere. Israel doesn't need to be represented by right wing fascist idiots.
This siltation needs intelligence, compassion and even handedness, not idiot idealogical unconditional support for EITHER side.

Calling this "Apartheid" makes it more emotive, but goes some way to addressing the reality of he siltation on the ground. Now if the Palestinians would cease violence and follow the example of Mandela things would be better for everyone.

theres no peace in amerikkka bloods crips klan aryans ms1 and just blood thirsty people who claim no aliegance to no religion gang or mob who just hates and want to see your blood spill because thier soul, lifeforce, mind, brain, thoughts just not right. we have to clean our own yards before we help the niegbors look at 911 perfect example they wanted the jewish federation and they see amerikkkaa helps them so lets get amerikkka also

Great post...it brings out the good and the ugly.
Belligerent haters all wrapped in their paper armor of jealousy and self-righteousness, have resorted to new tactics. The Crusades accomplished nothing because it strengthened the Muslim empire and created future avengers, the inquisition was a failure because it helped spread the Jewish people to scores of countries but most notably to Africa and Asia and eventually helped bring millions of Jews to the U.S.A. The holocaust gave Israel back to the Jews and with their minds working in unison in one fixed country, gave them the highest concentration of advanced technology on the planet, besides becoming the fourth largest nuclear power since 1952 without ever threatening to use it.
It is great to see a post like this; it clearly delineates and forces the fence sitting posers, to show their hands and reveal the inner core of rottenness and anti Christian behavior. Yes, anti Christian, because Jesus never, ever, wanted or asked for people to hate and murder his people. Search both Testaments and you will not find a single chapter or paragraph or sentence teaching hatred against his people. NOWHERE.
Yet, even with the glorious label "Love" present at every Church and every mass and every Baptism and every convocation or gathering, the haters of The Christ's origin, go on detesting his people with disgust and they even believe they are justified, because they know better than he. Unfortunately, that is exactly the devil's wish...to twist love into hate; we must not fall. May the devil swallow his own evil and destroy himself.
We all see what people controlled by the devil can do. Let us not fall too.
We must remember, e v i l are the last four letters of devil. Evil is in the devil.
LOVE conquers all.

Zion belongs to Isrealis only in righteousness until the levites are cleansed and makeing way for the space station in ZION to open up pouring powers knowledge & truth flowing from space there will be war. or just put down the scrolls bibles korans and share care & love with the beings you see in front of your faces daily

when in south africas situation did the south africans use suicide bombers?in fact what aggression did black south africans take part in?cite how the palastinians are pacive victims and sure its similar but they arent. the wall isnt a class divider. its called security and sadly for both parties (jews and arabs) it is needed. do you want a better situation for the palastiniansreally? cuz all this aparthied talk does is further convolude an already massively complex issue.

guess you loved the book then, eh? God Bless ya and have a happy one!

Bunch of fucking bigots and antisemites. What's on show here is trick number 12 in Schopenhauer's list of common dialectical devices.To carry out this trick you simply choose a term which is favourable to your proposition. For example, what an impartial person would call a 'security wall is described by a biased neo-Nazi as an 'apartheid wall'.

And so might the tiger complain about the aggressive bleating of the tehered goat and the wolf be righteously indignant at the attitude of non-cooperation taken up by the reluctant lamb.

Welcome to the dark, bitter and twisted world of racists and haters on a site that claims to be liberal but welcomes and supports sickos and fascists purporting to be peace lovers.

Vomit.

Israel will keep doing anything they want untill they are gone. I have said this before, history always repeats its self maybe the next WW they will get what is coming to them. I do know some Jews that are against this action but they are affraid to speak,it's too bad because they need to speak up on the crimes against humanity in the name of Israel. Karma, Karma, Karma.They will get theres and I hope Im alive to see it.

how can we call for an end to apartheid in south africa and not in Palestine?! how can we call for a tearing down of a wall in Germany but not in Palestine?! it shows a definite two-facedness with our foreign policy!! hopefully one that Obama will change!

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Part III is entitled, self-explanatorily, "Towards Inclusion and Peace -- Resisting Israeli Apartheid." White focuses first on organizations on the ground in Israel/Palestine -- Adalah (the Legal Centre for Minority Rights in Israel), ADRID (Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced), ICAHD (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions), Popular Committees Against the Wall (particularly those in the Palestinian villages of Budrus and Bilin), and Zochrot ("remembrance" in Hebrew), "an organization made up of Israelis concerned with raising awareness of the Nakba amongst their own people" (Nakba, Arabic for "catastrophe," is the name Palestinians give to their forced expulsion from their homeland in 1947-48).

Next he turns to "International Solidarity," concentrating on activities rather than organizations: boycotts, divestment, sanctions (three strategies often grouped together as BDS), protest and education, support for grassroots Palestinian and Israeli groups, and trips to the region, whether of a "fact-finding" or more committed nature.

In pondering "a different kind of future," White stresses that there is no point in "trying to 'undo' things that cannot be undone." He castigates rhetoric about a "two-state solution" or demands that Palestinians should "compromise," as if the solution could by-pass the dissolution of Israeli apartheid. It is only by "guaranteeing the collective and individual rights of all the peoples of Palestine/Israel, that the people of the region can realize the kind of peaceful tomorrow previous generations have been denied."

White concludes with an invaluable list of "frequently asked questions" plus their answers, and a useful glossary.

For all those engaged in the "cleaner struggle" against Israeli apartheid that Ehud Olmert so dreads, this little book is an invaluable tool. For those who simply wish to brush up rapidly on the facts of the Israel/Palestine issue, it is equally invaluable.

Raymond Deane is a composer and political activist (www.raymonddeane.com)

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The "A-word" made a dramatic entry on the world stage with the publication in 2006 of former US President Jimmy Carter's Palestine Peace not Apartheid which, however, used the term rather diffusely and fallaciously exempted "sovereign" Israel (as distinct from the West Bank and Gaza Strip occupied in 1967) from its application. Nonetheless, the term had entered the mainstream and now seems likely to stay there.

In this context, Ben White's new book fulfills a consolidating role, drawing together the various strands of the apartheid debate within a number of different contexts. In his introduction White cites the UN Convention's definition of apartheid and highlights a number of the "inhuman acts" that it cites, while underlining the differences as well as the similarities between the cases of Israel and South Africa.

While respecting White's reluctance to over-elaborate, it might have been worthwhile to extend this chapter a little by, for example, stressing Uri Davis' repeated emphasis that apartheid is in essence "the regulation of racism in law," and not merely a catalogue of inhuman acts.

The first part of the book accurately traces the entire history of "the conflict" from 1897 (the first Zionist Congress) to the present in a mere 28 pages, a breathtaking achievement indeed. White is uncompromising and surely correct in seeing the apartheid paradigm at work from the foundation of Israel in 1948, and in diagnosing its premises in the utterances and machinations of the likes of Herzl (founder of political Zionism) and Ben-Gurion (Zionist "pioneer" and the first Israeli Prime Minister).

Part II characterizes the specificities of Israeli apartheid under 17 headings from "Israel a state for some of its citizens" through "The occupation" and "The separation wall" (apartheid, of course, being the Afrikaans word for separation) to "The fragmentation of Palestine." White reminds us that "around half of the entire Palestinian population as a whole are not ruled by Israel at all: they are the refugees and their descendants who were denationalized, expelled and forcibly kept out of their homeland by the first, dramatic acts of Israeli apartheid."