Marc39
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Palestinians are not Israeli citizens. Thus, apartheid is inapplicable. All Israeli citizens are constitutionally guaranteed the same freedoms, human rights and civil liberties.
Your civil rights efforts would be better spent trying to rescind apartheid throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds, starting with Lebanon, where so-called Palestinians are denied citizenship, employment and healthcare.
Go to it.
blacks weren't citizens of south africa under apartheid, either.
you've learned well, grasshopper.
Here is the difference btw South Africa and Israel/Palestine.
South Africa was one country ruled by the minority! Israel and Palestine are two countries in which one occupies the other. Israel has not annexed the West Bank or Gaza. The Israeli Arabs are citizens of Israel (but they must accept it) with all the same rights as Jewish Israelis. Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza are not Israelis.
Now if Israel is ever foolish enough to annex the West Bank and Gaza and didn't grant the Palestinians full rights as citizens, then Jos the Infiltrator's apartheid arguement might hold water. But that is not that case, so it fails!
Palestine is a country? Really? You better contact Obama, Netanyahu and Abbas about this as they've been dickering around all this time trying to negotiate statehood [a country] for the Pallies.
Israel is occupying nobody.
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