Part Hate - Why the term Apartheid cannot be applied to Israel

Ok but does it apply to Israel's rule over Palestine?

Hey, as long as we're throwing around nasty words, let's say that Jordan - by throwing all the Palestinians out, and the rest of the Arab world - by doing nothing helpful - throwing them in Refugee camps while blaming Israel for everything - created an apertheid situation by doing all they could to keep the Palestinians away from them in their "Homelands" By the way, when the UN offered separate areas to the Jewish and Arab populations of Palestine (yes, we were all Palestinians!) the Arabs refused, preferring to take the adice of the their brother countries and push the Jews out. Oops! They had a country handed to them - they said no, kill the Jews. And this is the Israelis fault somehow??? Get a grip.

Apartheid Israel is a deadly accurate description of the abusive and illegal Racist Zionist dominion over the Holy Land.

For a detailed checklist of comparisons between racist Apartheid South Africa and contemporary racist Apartheid Israel see posting #7 at link .

That checklist of Apartheid Israeli abuses includes many things highly offensive to non-racist humanity and which violate the UN Charter and the Geneva, Rights of the Child, Universal Human Rights and genocide Conventions - read #7 at link .

Fundamentally Racist Zionism (as opposed to non-racist zionism involving Jews wishing to happily live in Palestine in peace with equity, justice and reconciliation with the Indigenous inhabitants) involved right from the beginning colonialist invasion, settlement and violent dispossession, disempowering, deprivation and displacement of the Indigenous Inhabitants.

Racist Zionism in practice involves many of the horrible abuses of South African Apartheid (Bantutstans, dispossession from land and property, political disempowering, compulsory race-based ID as in Nazi-occupied Europe , illegal mass imprisonment, military and paramilitaryattacks on Indigenous civilians etc).

Even in Israel "proper" , Arab citizens (20% of the population) might have the vote but they are racially excluded from major areas of activity and largely removed from participation in government.

I am lucky to live in Australia. Some remnants of my family subject to Nazi genocide came to Australia rather than to do to Palestinians in Palestine what the Germans had done to us in 1944-1945 (notwithstanding the Allied victory, out homes and our lands - some quite extensive and valuable - have been occupied since 1945 by non-owners just as all of the Holy Land is forcibly and traumatizingly occupied by Jews and nearly all but the Gaza Strip and a dwindling and grossly violated part of the West Bank and Jerusalem actually ethnically cleansed and physically settled by Jews).

Even though Australia has an evil, racist, war-mongering Bush-ite Government, most Australians are easy going when it comes to ethnic differences (although racist, dishonest and manipulative Racist Zionist and Bush-ite terror hysteria has caused an appalling entrenchment of anti-Arab anti-Semitism and Islamophobia). Many of my best friends (Christians, Muslims, Jews, agnostics) are in inter-ethnic marriages.

Accordingly just ONE of numerous Apartheid-style obscenities in Israel - the functional prohibition of Israeli-Palestinian marriage and cohabitation - is to us an utterly offensive, disgusting and unforgivable law. Thus I and many of my closest friends would have been imprisoned in Apartheid South Africa because of these disgusting, evil, racist laws coming between husand and wife and children (indeed reminiscent of Nazi-era laws).

The Israeli Government declares that these Apartheid laws are needed for "security" but this is simply false, racist abuse and "terror hysteria". No doubt bombings and other killongs are deplorable and evil and terrifying, but dispassionate inspection of Holy Land homicide statistics reveals that annually over 80% of Holy Land homicides are committed by Jewish Israelis - if anyone needs "security" from "terrorists" in the Holy Land it is Palestinians - and especially Palestinian Children - from Israeli State Terrorists.

Post-2000 the "average annual homicides" totalled 1240.1 in the Holy Land but from the perspective of VICTIMS 286.7 (23.1%) have been OF Israelis and 953.4 (76.9%) OF Palestinians – however in relation to PERPETRATORS, 1004.4 (81.0%) have been BY Israelis and 235.7 (19.0%) have been BY Palestinians i.e. in terms of "terror deaths" over 80% are due to Israelis and these mostly due to Israeli military or paramilitary killers (see: link ).

The PROBLEM in both Apartheid South Africa and Apartheid Israel was racist ideology (for an outstanding analysis see: Lindqvist, S. (1992), Exterminate All the Brutes (Granta Books, London, 2002)) and racist colonialism followed by racist dispossession, disempowerment, displacement, deprivation and regional ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous Inhabitants.

The SOLUTION in South Africa was simply NON-RACISM and could also be so in the Holy Land when the Israelis (Jews and Arabs) get rid of their evil Racist Zionist political leadership that acutely threatens Israel and indeed threatens all Jews world-wide who are tarred with the brush of Racist Zionism and the horrendous human rights abuses of Apartheid Israel.

Thus well-intentioned people have suggested eminently sensible proposals for a non-racist PEACE in the Holy Land with equity, justice and reconciliation (see : link , link and link ).