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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper
apartheid is not a land dispute, as well you know. it's amazing how one side of this thread talks about specifics, and another talks in nonsensical generalisations.
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I am afraid propaganda masquerading as fact as that helps noone
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The charge of apartheid is the new blood libel.
As Hamas rains rockets down on Israel, members of the Squad in Congress and
other left-wing enemies are using the occasion to amplify their accusation that
Israel is an “apartheid state.”
This is a transparent attempt to delegitimize — and isolate and ultimately
destroy — the Jewish state by associating it with a racist regime that the world
united to squeeze out of existence.
It doesn’t take much moral discernment to understand, even if one takes a
harshly critical view of how Israel conducts itself, that it is nothing like an
apartheid regime in South Africa that depended on a rigorously enforced
system of racial repression.
The Arab minority in Israel (about 20 percent of the population) may face
obstacles, but it is not treated like black South Africans were.
Israel is a democracy that affords its Arab citizens full rights. They vote in
elections, and Arab parties sit in parliament. These parties obviously have a
profoundly different worldview than the Zionist parties, which has been a
barrier preventing cooperation between them.
Arab Israelis are full participants in Israeli society. There are Arab justices on
the Supreme Court. About 20 percent of doctors in Israel and about half of
pharmacists are Arab. Roughly 17 percent of students seeking an
undergraduate degree are Arab, a number that has roughly doubled over the
past decade.
As Steve Kramer of the Times of Israel puts it, “They arguably are the most
free Arabs in the Middle East.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/...state/#slide-1