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Do not downplay the term Apartheid like this. The conflict between Israel and Palestine and the clear mistreatment of civilians is bad enough without lying. About 1,6 million Palestinians are Israeli citizens, they number about 20% of the total population and live and work anywhere and anything in Israel without segregation. Some thousands of them volunteered for the Israeli army and are fighting against Hamas. None of that would be possible in an Apartheid state.
War is bad enough; there is no need to label everything with misused terms like „Apartheid“, „holocaust“, „genocide“.
They have less rights by law its unquestionably apartied.
when you are not a french citizen, you indeed have less right in France than a french. The problem is the definition of Israel's border is really blurry
...because the Zionist Jew-Nazis of Israel have absolutely zero respect for any defined borders. They've defied the ones set up in 1938, 1947, and again in the 60s when the UN stepped in again. You can look at the progression maps over time, that 100% is the Jew-Nazis violating repeatedly the treaties set.
You think you're defending Israel but you're actually doing a much worse service to it. If Israel is guilty of apartheid, which I think it is, it has a clear path to redemption. If however the Israeli crimes are sui generis, then we end up with a whole new class of crime against humanity called "the crime Israel is doing to the Palestinians", for which the international order has no precedent for how to redeem. And that's a huge danger for Israel because it opens up the space of possible reactions, much much more widely than apartheid.
The crime Israel is doing to Palestinians (I've seen Nakba suggested as a name, so I'll use it for brevity) extends beyond Apartheid. The Nakba's intent is to take apart Palestinians' ability to exist as a political collective by dividing them and implementing varying levels of Apartheid and violence against them, up to and including genocide. This goes beyond South African Apartheid, whose goal was for black people to serve white people. The Nakba is meant to destroy Palestinians as an entity capable of having political will. This is why they're currently divided into Israeli citizens, East Jerusalemites, Gazans and West Bankers, with the goal of eventually ethnically cleansing the latter two (along with East Jerusalemites on a larger timescale).
The Nakba includes Apartheid as one of its components, but it's not Apartheid.
Yeah, to use the term apartheid is not accurate to explain the atrocity. Don't overplay 'apartheid', it's not the accurate term. We need a stronger term here; could be zionistheid or Israelitheid.
I've heard the term "Nakba" suggested as a name for the brand new crime against humanity Israel created.
So the thing is: While the treatment of Palestinians in Israel proper does also constitute an Apartheid according to several organizations, I'm talking about the West Bank and Gaza here. Israel simply split Palestinians into different groups and subjects them to different levels of Apartheid. Palestinian Israelis are simply the people who were allowed oh so graciously by Israel to get the least bad level.
Also, your use of "mistreatment" is a massive understatement. Many people in high government positions in Israel want to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
See: https://thewire.in/world/israeli-government-population-transfer-gaza-strip