BTW, contrary to Pallywood-lies producing fake "memorandums", N. Mandela did NOT make the ridiculous yet horrific 'apartheid analogy.' http://books.google.com/books?id=LBnn7AR5R6YC&amp…

The Arab led slur of “apartheid" [a tactic of diverting attention from the largely Arab leaders’ fault in Arabs' condition, as well as general Arab oppression of its people and discrimination against minorities, a criminal strategy with the aim of de-legitimizing Israel’s quest for survival, as if Israel's security and defense has anything to do with "race"], dates back to an October 1961 (that's 6 Years before the 1967 so-called "occupation" even came about) speech by Saudi Arabia's Ahmad Shukairy during a strongly anti-Western chide. He went as far as to object Israel's right to try Nazi extermination chief of WW2: Adolf Eichmann.

Ahmad Shukairy was an aide for the infamous Hitler's Mufti Haj amin al-Husseini, as his henchman he helped in ideas of extermination in WW2. He openly praised a Nazi group in Argentina (1962).

http://www.adl.org/Israel/israel_attacks.asp

Let’s organize an annual “Arab Apartheid Week,” which would highlight the decrepit state of human and political rights throughout the Arab world.

There is a solid case to be made that the Arab states remain the last great outpost of despotism and tyranny on earth, and people need to be reminded as much. Indeed, the Arab world today is a living encyclopedia of outmoded forms of government, from sultanates such as Oman and emirates such as Qatar, to thuggish dictatorships such as Syria and dynastic monarchies along the lines of Jordan. It may be a political scientist’s dream, but it is a nightmare for the hundreds of millions of Arabs chafing under oppression and tyranny.

Basic and fundamental freedoms such as personal autonomy and individual rights are routinely trampled upon, and ethnic and religious minority groups suffer extreme discrimination and
intolerance. Just ask Coptic Christians in Egypt, Baha’is in Iran or Shi’ites in Saudi Arabia for starters.

This was borne out most recently by a report issued by Freedom House, the independent Washington-based group that advocates for freedom worldwide. Its annual survey, “Freedom in the World 2010,” would make for eye-opening reading for all those who cry “apartheid” whenever they see a flag with a Star of David.

Consider the following findings:

Of the 18 countries in the Middle East that Freedom House surveyed, only one is considered to be “free.”

And just who might that be? Yep, you guessed it: Israel.

Not a single Arab country – not one! – did Freedom House consider “free.” Three Arab states – Morocco, Lebanon and Kuwait – were labeled “partly free,” while 13 other Arab states as well as Iran merited the dubious distinction of being branded as “not free.”

In effect, then, this means that of the approximately 370 million human beings currently residing in the Middle East, only 2 percent enjoy true freedom – namely those who live in the Jewish state.

So much for “Israeli apartheid.”

NOT SURPRISINGLY, in a press release announcing the report’s publication, Freedom House concluded that “the Middle East remained the most repressive region in the world.” It is this message that Israel and its supporters need to begin highlighting. By casting a spotlight on the subjugation, oppression and tyranny that typify nearly the entire Arab world, we can open some eyes out there and educate the Western public as to who really shares their democratic values.

As Prof. Bernard Lewis has written, the Arab states are little more than “a string of shabby tyrannies, ranging from traditional autocracies to new-style dictatorships, modern only in their apparatus of repression and indoctrination.”

An annual Arab Apartheid Week, held on campuses and at community centers, could be an effective vehicle for driving home this fundamental truth.

Doing so will reframe the debate. More importantly, it will help Westerners to finally begin recognizing the Arab regimes for what they are: a dangerous mix of despotism and dictatorship.

JERUSALEM – This week, college campuses throughout North America have declared “Israel Apartheid Week,” where Israel is berated as an allegedly apartheid entity.

The way to cope with such allegations is to put the shoe on the other foot and to look at which side truly fosters an apartheid entity.

Presently, the newly constituted Palestinian Authority (P.A.) is preparing a state of Palestine based on new Middle East rules of Apartheid and institutionalized discrimination:

1. The P.A. claims the right of every Arab community to return to Arab villages lost in the 1948 war.
2. While 20 percent of Israel’s citizens are Arabs, the P.A. will not allow even one Jew to live in its midst.
3. P.A. law mandates that anyone who sells land to a Jew is liable to the death penalty
4. Those who murder Jews are honored on all official media outlets of the P.A.
5. P.A. maps depict all of Palestine under Palestinian rule
6. P.A. maps of Jerusalem once again delete the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem
7. P.A. documents claim all of Jerusalem.
8. The P.A. denies the right of Jewish access to Jewish holy places in their midst.
9. The Palestinian State Constitution denies juridical status to any religion besides Islam.
10. The P.A. will not allow the creation of any system of human rights or civil liberties in a future state.

If that is not the formula for a totalitarian apartheid state of Palestine, then what is?

sorry bro :(

good to know that you view all palestinian casualties as “terrorists”. tell me, does your support for israel have more to do with your anti-arab hang-ups or your sympathy for imperialists? j/w

either way, israel isn’t using magical WP that only clings to and burns terrorists. they are conducting a war of extermination and they will only be satisfied when every arab in the gaza strip has been killed, displaced or assimilated.

Christopher Hitchens:
Feel free to quibble with Christopher Hitchens and Steven Schwartz (among others) who defend the term “Islamo-fascism.”arent Hamas-hugging hate. Try harder to avoid defending the indefensible.

No. It’s stupid, and few, if any, Holocaust researchers or scholars of fascism would ever use it. See: Walter Laqeuer

idiotarian sneered: Hahah. Please show me how Salafism and Deobandism have parallels to either National Socialism or Mussolini.

Feel free to quibble with Christopher Hitchens and Steven Schwartz (among others) who defend the term “Islamo-fascism.” The analogy stands. Those who wish to explore the subject in greater detail should feel free to sponsor “Islamo-fascism Awareness Week” on campus;
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism-awareness-week/

This obnoxious campaign to slander Israel (by citing the discredited Goldstone report) is transparent Hamas-hugging hate. Try harder to avoid defending the indefensible.

gomm: white phosphorus on densely populated civilian targets and lied about it? that’s why israel should be pushed into the sea.

hope this helps

white phosphorus on terrorists: Check
white phosporus on civilians: nope

stop spreading lies and supporting your terrorist friends.

John:
You would get a traffic ticket. Are you joking?

Yea, but guess what when the threat involves suicide bombing and car bombs, its a different story. The palestinians made it to the point that Israel has no other choice.

Jay:
“We can handle it.”Dyan – respectfully, that’s nothing but braggadocio.The ONLY thing that saves Israel today is nukes.There are hundreds of millions of Muslims around Israel, and only Israel’s nukes keep these people at bay.I’d suggest that you work to push from ‘your’ side to make peace happen, because the status quo should not be addressed by saying “We can handle it.”

Listen up,

Our land was taken by Romans. They even changed the name from “Land of Israel” to Philistine. Well were back and we not giving it up again without a fight. And the only thing thats dragging the conflict along is Israel’s reluctance to open a can of whoopass. The palestinians want peace but to them peace means no Jews on “Arab land”

Jay:
First, I’d like to respond to John.John, when you wrote, “A Palestinian Christian I met had his car confiscated because he drove into Israel without Israeli plates.”, his car was confiscated because he broke the law, not for any other reason.Not because he was a Christian, but because he broke the law.If you drove into Canada without proper plates on your car, what do YOU think would happen?

You would get a traffic ticket. Are you joking?

Dyan – respectfully, that’s nothing but braggadocio. The ONLY thing that saves Israel today is nukes. There are hundreds of millions of Muslims around Israel, and only Israel’s nukes keep these people at bay.

I’d suggest that you work to push from ‘your’ side to make peace happen, because the status quo should not be addressed by saying “We can handle it.”

John, you also stated, “I learned what it is like to go through security checkpoints with Palestinian people.” Yes. Before the first and second intifada, you know, the suicide bombing years, there were hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living and working in Israel, and far, FAR fewer checkpoints. If not for the counter-productive intifadas, there’d not be this problem, would you not agree?

“The fact of the matter is that Israel’s treatment of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Hamastan? Don’t you know ’stan’ as a suffix has literally nothing to do with Gaza?) is abhorrent.”

A) that was poetic license.
B) the treatments of the West Bank/Gaza has more to do with the attacks that came out of the West Bank and Gaza than anything else. The suicide bombers out of the West Bank caused the walls, and the over EIGHT THOUSAND mortars and rockets out of Gaza caused the mess in Gaza…

“Homes are demolished to make way for Jewish settlers,”

A) not in years, and,
B) this is shameful and should not happen, and a finalized peace process should solve this problem, don’t you agree? Maybe the Palestinians should agree to Netanyahu’s offer and meet to discuss peace?

And, your quotes are not relevant. Taking specific opinions and quotes out of context and relevancy is propaganda, not reasonable discourse.

“Also, please mention one time when the black Africans in apartheid South Africa threw a s@#$-load of rockets at their oppressors, non-stop for months, if not years, on end.”

Yoself is of course correct. Imagine what the US would do if Mexico were shooting tens of thousand of rockets over our border…

“Sometimes people don’t just roll over because you want them to, or because you feel entitled to control them. Doesn’t it suck?”

J4, what sucks is how the Palestinians are living now, don’t you think? No one is asking for anyone to “just roll over”. Netanyahu TWICE offered to meet for peace talks… What’s wrong with a land swap for ~95% of the West Bank? What’s wrong with full land/water/air rights within 10 years? What’s wrong with that?

“just the fact that Israel is the OPPRESSOR of Palestine says a lot.”

Since your fallacy suggests that what is “says” is what you WANT it to say, I am sure that I’d agree that it says “a lot”.

“if someone was oppressing me, i might just want to throw rockets too.”

Yes, and when they came to stop you by killing you and everyone near you, you’d feel that the end-result was successful? Or, would you feel…as you drifted heavenward towards your 72 virgins…that perhaps all you did is die and kill others at the same time and only harden the hearts of your oppressor? Well, go to Gaza and find out, I’d suggest, p2.

“their land has been colonized”

I’d suggest that you care enough for your own integrity and the integrity of your argument to learn what ACTUALLY defines the word “colony”. You’ve been reading too much propaganda, and you’ll recognize this if you choose to simply look that word up.

“The ANC maintained a guerilla wing and tortured detainees.” John, I find the irony of your shifting goalposts hysterical, since you questioned someone else’s care to actually rely upon the definition of “systematic oppression”…

And, here’s the kind of statement that defines (for me) the anti-Israelis bunch: “remember the time when the IDF dropped white phosphorus on densely populated civilian targets and lied about it? that’s why israel should be pushed into the sea.”

A) WP is legal.
B) Your calls for Genocide and those calls by your ilk are not missed by the Israelis. THAT is why they do not trust their neighbors.

What the young reflexives do not recognize is that real change is a result of real thought. Whining about what is “fair” would be laughable if not for the great problem here… International agreements are not adjudicated by what is “fair”, but by what is POSSIBLE. Right now, the Israelis have the strong side, and thus they will negotiate from this position and the Palestinians who care to make peace will make the best deal possible…but it won’t be what many fat and happy Western student’s think is “fair”.

Stop thinking with your emotions and think for what is POSSIBLE.

There’s a life lesson for you.

Col. Richard Kemp:
Islamo-fascists

Hahah. Please show me how Salafism and Deobandism have parallels to either National Socialism or Mussolini. Indeed, Francisco Franco’s Falangists bear more semblance to the Lebanese Christian Falangists of the 1980s who slaughtered so many Palestinian refugees.

“The whitey-pete slander is a crude attempt to incriminate Israel for protecting its own citizens from Hamas rocket attacks launched from Gaza against Israeli civilians.”

States have a right to defend themselves, thus giving Israel the right to attack Hamas in Gaza. Hamas used human shields, which is criminal under international law. Regardless, Israel’s pursuit of Hamas — and the fact Israel is well aware of the human shields, because this is not the first time it has happened — was so brutal that by its own admission it killed more than 300 Palestinian children in a matter of days. That’s literally dozens of times the number of Israelis killed in the previous nine years of Gazan rocket attacks.

Gaza lost 15 of its 27 hospitals and nearly half of its primary care facilities. Virtually all 10,000 family farms were destroyed in an Israeli campaign to destroy agriculture. Eight hundred water wells and more than 180 greenhouses were demolished, and 50,000 were left homeless. It’s a far cry from the crappy Qassams Hamas lobs toward Ashdod.

gomm: white phosphorus

Islamo-fascists in Gaza fired thousands of rockets at Jewish civilians. The whitey-pete slander is a crude attempt to incriminate Israel for protecting its own citizens from Hamas rocket attacks launched from Gaza against Israeli civilians.

Humanity-hater, Goldstone should be prosecuted for his lies and blood libels against Israel. Why should this evil man be allowed to get away with what he has done?

Col. Richard Kemp, a British commander in Bosnia and Afghanistan
stated: “The Israel Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare. ” (Guardian-UK)

Goldstone Gaza Report: Col. Richard Kemp Testifies at U.N. Emergency Session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX6vyT8RzMo&feature=player_embedded

hope this helps

Those hypocrites always attack Jews, but look the other way when atrocities are committed in Arab states. 1.2 Billion Muslims vs 15 Million Jews. We can handle it.

Try harder to cite figures worth emulating.