Obama Blogger: Israel is an Apartheid State

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[Winged Hussar]

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Israelis fighting Israeli Apartheid By Tony Wicher - Oct 11th, 2007 at 12:31 pm EDT

But what’s clear enough is that for the past 40 years, there has been only one state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and that state has been Israel. And Israel has been an apartheid state: Like South Africa, it’s a democracy ruled by law for one group of people, and a military-colonial regime for another. Those who complain about it the use of “apartheid” to describe Israeli policies are either in deep denial, or else argue, as many liberals do, that the term is not helpful because it is provocative or “demonizes” the Israelis. This, too, though, is an evasion: The purpose of using the term is precisely to draw attention to the fact that Israel is routinely engaged in practices long deemed abhorrent by the international community, but because of Israel’s claim to represent the Jewish people and because of our history of suffering, this reality is simply overlooked, excused, or ignored. So, yes, using the word “apartheid” to describe what Israel is doing in the West Bank is meant to make people feel uncomfortable over what Israel is doing, and to recognize that condoning it is the moral equivalent of condoning apartheid. Clearly, that’s why Israeli human rights advocates routinely use the term.

[Winged Hussar]

Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright = "God Bless America."

(Obama and Wright with the red circle and line over them for "negation" = "God BLESS America.")

[mware]

Hey Winged, better save this one. I dont think they are going to allow it, to remain on that site very long.

[Winged Hussar]

There is even worse stuff, like a statement as to how Palestinian terrorism is justified, at Obama’s site.