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”