How America turns a blind eye to apartheid in the Middle East »
Posted By dextrase 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsEven as the noose tightens on the people of Palestine, Binyamin Netanyahu has the neck to talk about peace.
The Israeli Prime Minister has been in London for discussions with Gordon Brown and US envoy George Mitchell. Back in the Middle East, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians continues. There is no sign of Britain or America acknowledging this fact or calling it by its name.
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The US goes along with this curtailment on the rights of its citizens under international law. Its consular website (http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/border-crossings... spells it out: “Since the spring of 2009, Israeli border officials at the Allenby border crossing have begun using a new entry visa stamp that permits travel only in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas ... Please note that only Israeli liaison offices in the West Bank can assist — but they rarely will.”
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Nevertheless, some of the brightest signs of hope for the Middle East come from Israelis fighting for justice for Palestinians. Neve Gordon may be about to lose his job as chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University, for his support for Palestinian rights. He wrote last week: “For more than 42 years, Israel has controlled the land between the Jordan Valley and the Mediterranean Sea.
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And there’s Ofra Ben-Artzi. Earlier this month, she was arrested in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem while going to comfort Palestinian friends, evicted to make way for Jewish families.
She wrote: “I could see the ultra-Orthodox men and women, in their distinctive clothing, walking quietly along the road ... nor did the bars prevent me from seeing that Umm Kamel's tent, where she had been living since her own expulsion, was also gone. From the floor of the police car I saw what looked like a complete Judaisation of the neighbourhood.
“We are walking with our open eyes into the abyss. If we will not be smart enough to live together, Arabs and Jews ... then we will be dragged into transfer [of populations], and if this is not enough, what will we do then? Erect concentration camps?”
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Thinker223 months, 2 weeks ago
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"How America turns a blind eye to apartheid in the Middle East"
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Well, let us see:
For starters, below is the definition of 'apartheid' courtesy of Merriam Webster:
1 : racial segregation; specifically : a former policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa
2 : separation, segregation
FTA: "Binyamin Netanyahu has the neck to talk about peace."
Yes (O HORROR!!!), he had the neck to talk about... creation of a PEACEFUL Arab Palestinian state alongside Israel. How dared he??? Palestinians did not and do not want a state. They want to destroy Israel. Anything short of destruction of Israel is apartheid. Right?
FTA: "Back in the Middle East, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians continues."
As a result of this "ethnic cleansing" the number of "ethnically cleansed" Arabs INCREASED by 1000% (eleven times) in Israel and by 500% in the entire Palestine. Apparently, the more they're cleansed the larger their population becomes.
FTA: “Since the spring of 2009, Israeli border officials at the Allenby border crossing have begun using a new entry visa stamp that permits travel only in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas ... Please note that only Israeli liaison offices in the West Bank can assist — but they rarely will.”
For those wondering where the Allenby border crossing is it's the main crossing of the international border between Jordan and Israel. Of course, it's nothing less than "apartheid" that the Israeli border officials serve at the Israeli-Jordanian border crossing at the Israeli side. -
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FTA: “We are walking with our open eyes into the abyss. If we will not be smart enough to live together, Arabs and Jews ... then we will be dragged into transfer [of populations], and if this is not enough, what will we do then? Erect concentration camps?”
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Sixty-five years ago the Nazis invested a lot of effort building and maintaining concentration camps, tens of thousands of specially trained personnel, etc.
On the other hand, one should look how great Jews and Arabs live together in the Arab states of Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen... One has to admit that there are no concentration camps for Jews there... but the number of Jews in the Arab states decreased by 98% since 1948.
By comparison, the Nazis succeeded to reduce the Jewish population of Europe "only" by about 65%. One has to admit that the Arabs were way more efficient in getting rid of their Jews than the Nazis were.
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