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Kerry Is wrong: Israel is already an apartheid state | TheHill
Last Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry touched off a firestorm of criticism by warning that Israel risks becoming an apartheid state after his initiative to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace limped this week to its inconclusive deadline. But Kerry is wrong to suggest that Israel will reach this pariah-hood tipping point in the indeterminate future. Since its inception in 1948, Israel has maintained a regime of differentiated rights that privileges Israeli Jews and discriminates against Palestinians.
Palestinian refugees, ethnically cleansed from their homes by Israel before, during and after the states establishment on 78 percent of historic Palestine, are denied their internationally guaranteed right to return; however, a Jewish person anywhere in the world can immigrate to Israel, automatically claim citizenship, and even reside on property belonging to Palestinians dispossessed of their land.
Those Palestinians not expelled from their properties, who are today citizens of Israel, face pervasive societal discrimination, and, according to Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, there are more than 50 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel in all areas of life, including their rights to political participation, access to land, education, state budget resources, and criminal procedures.
Immediately after occupying the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Stripthe remaining 22 percent of historic Palestinein 1967, Israel promulgated Military Order 101, stripping Palestinians of all political rights and embarking on an illegal colonization of their land. More than forty years later, Human Rights Watch concluded, in a report entitled Separate and Unequal: Israel's Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, that Israels military occupation has resulted in policies which harshly discriminate against Palestinian residents, depriving them of basic necessities while providing lavish amenities for Jewish settlement.
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Kerry Is wrong: Israel is already an apartheid state | TheHill
Last Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry touched off a firestorm of criticism by warning that Israel risks becoming an apartheid state after his initiative to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace limped this week to its inconclusive deadline. But Kerry is wrong to suggest that Israel will reach this pariah-hood tipping point in the indeterminate future. Since its inception in 1948, Israel has maintained a regime of differentiated rights that privileges Israeli Jews and discriminates against Palestinians.
Palestinian refugees, ethnically cleansed from their homes by Israel before, during and after the states establishment on 78 percent of historic Palestine, are denied their internationally guaranteed right to return; however, a Jewish person anywhere in the world can immigrate to Israel, automatically claim citizenship, and even reside on property belonging to Palestinians dispossessed of their land.
Those Palestinians not expelled from their properties, who are today citizens of Israel, face pervasive societal discrimination, and, according to Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, there are more than 50 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel in all areas of life, including their rights to political participation, access to land, education, state budget resources, and criminal procedures.
Immediately after occupying the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Stripthe remaining 22 percent of historic Palestinein 1967, Israel promulgated Military Order 101, stripping Palestinians of all political rights and embarking on an illegal colonization of their land. More than forty years later, Human Rights Watch concluded, in a report entitled Separate and Unequal: Israel's Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, that Israels military occupation has resulted in policies which harshly discriminate against Palestinian residents, depriving them of basic necessities while providing lavish amenities for Jewish settlement.
Read more: Kerry Is wrong: Israel is already an apartheid state | TheHill
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