The Israel "apartheid" libel

TPMCafe ^ | February, 17, 2007

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http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/lel66/2007/feb/15/the_israel_apartheid_libel

The Israel "apartheid" libel

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359860111& pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

...In an op-ed last week in The Australian, Muslim author Irshad Manji answers: "Would an apartheid state award its top literary prize to an Arab? ... Would an apartheid state encourage Hebrew-speaking schoolchildren to learn Arabic? Would road signs throughout the land appear in both languages? Even my country, the proudly bilingual Canada, doesn't meet that standard."

She continues: "Would a Hebrew newspaper in an apartheid state run an article by an Arab Israeli about why the Zionist adventure has been a total failure? Would it run that article on Israel's Independence Day? Would an apartheid state ensure conditions for the freest Arabic press in the Middle East?"

We would only add: What other state airlifted thousands of black Africans from Ethiopia to grant them instant and full citizenship?

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Zahalka himself puts the lie to this claim. He and other Israeli Arab MKs are living proof that Arab citizens of Israel, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa, have full political and civil rights, can vote and be elected to their parliament, and can even freely (if immorally) support the enemies of the state they are sworn to represent.

Indeed, many Israeli Arabs do not vote for the Arab parties, which have become so radicalized that they ignore their constituencies, but for Jewish parties. An Arab member of the Labor Party, for example, has just become a minister in the Israeli government.

And that's just the beginning. Israelis, be they Arabs or Jews, are much freer than anywhere in the Arab world. This is relevant because the "apartheid" charge brands Israel as a human rights abuser. But what sense does it make to berate the only country in the region that does respect human rights, while ignoring the rampant abuses taking place throughout the Muslim world?

According to the American Anti-Slavery Group (www.iabolish.com): "Though slavery was legally abolished [in Mauritania] in 1980, today 90,000 slaves continue to serve the Muslim Berber ruling class. Similarly, in Sudan, Arab northerners are known to raid the villages in the South - killing all the men and taking the women and children to be auctioned off and sold into slavery."

Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries deny equal rights to women, Christians, Jews, Hindus and others. Where are the protests against Saudi apartheid?

Anyone who cares about human rights should support countries where they are respected and protest against those which don't.

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Nobel Piece Prize whiner Jimmah Carter has been spouting this crap too, though the blood of thousands is on his hands.

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The Arab bank bribed him pretty well.

[elcid1970]

Jimmah Carter is a worthless no-good Jew-hating Nazi bastard!

Jimmah is all the ego of Hitler with none of the power.

[GSlob]

Well, having large hostile minorities is always a losing proposition. And apartheid is preferable to genocide.

[secretagent]

Excellent points all, and they bear repeating.

But they don't address the ongoing hassles the IDF has to impose on the Palestinians to secure the West Bank settlements. It does resemble South African apartheid in that respect, although the SA government had less security justification and based their system on race, unlike Israel, which bases it on security.

Very difficult situation for Israel and potentially moderate Palestinians.

[weegee]

Saudi Arabia is the true apartheid state.

They prohibit Jews from entering the country.
Non-muslims are second class citizens under (Islamic) law.
Non-muslims are prohibited from practicing their religions in Saudi Arabia. Non-Islamic religious texts are prohibited.
Non-muslims are prohibited from entering the segregated city of Mecca, a bigoted city that all muslims bow to 5 times a day around the world.

But Jimmuh and other anti-semites can continue their biased lies against Israel while ignoring the real apartheid.

[attiladhun2]

Don't forget Clinton and Gore. Both have received million$ in honoraria from giving anti-American and anti-Bush speeches in Arab countries. I understand the Clinton Lie-brary in Little Rock was partially funded by the Saudis. Is there any doubt the Dems are rightly designated the Dhimmicrats?