Israel is similar to Apartheid, yes.
Segregation is enforced in all the main spheres of Israeli life, including land allocation and housing, citizenship v nationality rights, education anHow Israeli Apartheid is Coming Unstuck » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Namesd employment. And absolutely none of this was accidental or unintended.
"To make sense of this, one has to understand how desperately Israel has sought to distinguish itself from apartheid South Africa.
"Israel cultivates, as South Africa once did, what scholars term 'grand apartheid'. This is segregation, largely covert and often often justified by security or cultural differences, to ensure that control of resources remains exclusively in the hands of the privileged community.
"At the same time, Israel long shied away from what some call South Africa’s model of 'petty apartheid' – the overt, symbolic, but far less significant segregation of park benches, buses and toilets.
"The avoidance of petty apartheid has been the key to IsraelÂ’s success in obscuring from the worldÂ’s view its grand apartheid, most obviously in the occupied territories but also inside Israel itself.
"This month South AfricaÂ’s departing ambassador to Israel, Ismail Coovadia, warned that Israel was a 'replication of apartheid'.
"The idea that the world may soon wake up to this comparison deeply unnerves Netanyahu and the right, all the more so as they risk being identified as the party refusing to make concessions towards peace."