Former Director of the American Jewish Congress: Israel has crossed the threshold

[Modbert]

"Israel has crossed the threshold from "the only democracy in the Middle East" to the only apartheid regime in the Western world."
- Henry Siegman

Imposing Middle East Peace

Israel's relentless drive to establish "facts on the ground" in the occupied West Bank, a drive that continues in violation of even the limited settlement freeze to which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed himself, seems finally to have succeeded in locking in the irreversibility of its colonial project. As a result of that "achievement," one that successive Israeli governments have long sought in order to preclude the possibility of a two-state solution, Israel has crossed the threshold from "the only democracy in the Middle East" to the only apartheid regime in the Western world.

The inevitability of such a transformation has been held out not by "Israel bashers" but by the country's own leaders. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon referred to that danger, as did Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who warned that Israel could not escape turning into an apartheid state if it did not relinquish "almost all the territories, if not all," including the Arab parts of East Jerusalem.

If I'm to understand wikipedia correctly, he's a frequent critic of Israel's policies in the West Bank and served as the Director of the American Jewish Congress from 1978 to 1994. And he's an Orthodox Rabbi.

Thoughts?

 

[The Rabbi]

Yeah. You're an asshole.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Yeah. You're an asshole.

Yet another brilliant critique of the issues.