Apartheid: Stigmatizing “Israel”? Questions Not Asked
by Kim Petersen
Dissident Voice, 05-02-2010
"Israel" defense [war] minister Ehud Barak has spoken to apartheid in "Israel".
As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called "Israel" it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.
"Israeli" media Haaretz responded:
His [Barack's] stark language and the South African analogy might have been unthinkable for a senior "Israeli" figure only a few years ago and is a rare admission of the gravity of the deadlocked peace process.
Barak did not, however, relinquish "Israel's" claim to the rest of the Occupied Territories of Palestine, he just mused on what was to be done about the non-Jewish people.
The question not asked was: What about Jimmy Carter? Or Desmond Tutu? How can an "Israeli" defense [war] minister talk about an apartheid state and anyone else not?
Former US president Jimmy Carter was raked over Zionist coals for using the term apartheid, which appeared in the title of his book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.
Carter wrote of an apartheid worse than in South Africa:
When "Israel" does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects the 200-or-so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa.
Of course, Carter was smeared as an anti-Semite. In the end, following the Lobby's mobbing of Carter, he apologized to American Jews for "stigmatizing "Israel"."
Before Carter, South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, who lived under apartheid, spoke of apartheid practices in "Israel" against the Palestinians. He, too, was accused of anti-Semitism.
Tutu was unapologetic.
People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Well, so what?
The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists.
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust.
Added Tutu:
Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon?
Will Barak be chastened, accused of "self-hatred," and forced to apologize for his "stigmatization" of "Israeli" Jews? This is not so important.
More important is that the stigmatization of people who oppose the oppression of Palestinians must cease, and above all, the apartheid and oppression of Palestinians must cease.
Dissident Voice, 05-02-2010
"Israel" defense [war] minister Ehud Barak has spoken to apartheid in "Israel".
As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called "Israel" it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.
"Israeli" media Haaretz responded:
His [Barack's] stark language and the South African analogy might have been unthinkable for a senior "Israeli" figure only a few years ago and is a rare admission of the gravity of the deadlocked peace process.
Barak did not, however, relinquish "Israel's" claim to the rest of the Occupied Territories of Palestine, he just mused on what was to be done about the non-Jewish people.
The question not asked was: What about Jimmy Carter? Or Desmond Tutu? How can an "Israeli" defense [war] minister talk about an apartheid state and anyone else not?
Former US president Jimmy Carter was raked over Zionist coals for using the term apartheid, which appeared in the title of his book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.
Carter wrote of an apartheid worse than in South Africa:
When "Israel" does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects the 200-or-so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa.
Of course, Carter was smeared as an anti-Semite. In the end, following the Lobby's mobbing of Carter, he apologized to American Jews for "stigmatizing "Israel"."
Before Carter, South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, who lived under apartheid, spoke of apartheid practices in "Israel" against the Palestinians. He, too, was accused of anti-Semitism.
Tutu was unapologetic.
People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Well, so what?
The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists.
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust.
Added Tutu:
Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon?
Will Barak be chastened, accused of "self-hatred," and forced to apologize for his "stigmatization" of "Israeli" Jews? This is not so important.
More important is that the stigmatization of people who oppose the oppression of Palestinians must cease, and above all, the apartheid and oppression of Palestinians must cease.
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