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Absent Palestinian sovereignty, Israel is imposing Jewish minority rule over the Palestinian population, thereby making an analogy to Apartheid South Africa undeniably apt.
Bibi's predecessors realized this well. During his tenure, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert commented that failure to create a Palestinian state would force Israel to "face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, and as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished." Additionally, former Prime Minister and current Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, commented after leaving the prime ministers post: If, and as long as between the Jordan and the sea, there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic... If the Palestinians vote in elections, it is a binational state, and if they don't, it is an apartheid state.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-b...ian-statehood-blocked-equality-struggle-ahead
Bibi's predecessors realized this well. During his tenure, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert commented that failure to create a Palestinian state would force Israel to "face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, and as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished." Additionally, former Prime Minister and current Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, commented after leaving the prime ministers post: If, and as long as between the Jordan and the sea, there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic... If the Palestinians vote in elections, it is a binational state, and if they don't, it is an apartheid state.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-b...ian-statehood-blocked-equality-struggle-ahead