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Is Israel’s treatment of Palestinians a form of apartheid? (www.latimes.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Keeponstalin@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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Kenneth Roth, who was executive director of Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 2022 and oversaw production of the report on apartheid, said that Israeli authorities have long insisted that ending discriminatory policies depended on peace negotiations.

But three decades on, with no real peace process in motion, that explanation “lacked credibility,” Roth said.

Israel has continued to support Jewish settlements in the West Bank, constructing “bypass roads” accessible only to the settlers and expanding military checkpoints — moves that Roth and others say all but eliminated the possibility that the West Bank could someday become an independent, contiguous Palestinian state.

“What’s left is Swiss cheese,” he said.

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[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gaza is not a country. It's a besieged reigon inside Israel. Gazans don't have passports; they are not even allowed to travel out of their borders to even visit the west bank or any place in Israel except for few with job permits who were allowed work in fields inside Israel by day and return by night. Their fuel, electricity, food and water are rationed and controlled by Israel. They drink polluted water and live in poverty and 75%+ unemployment. They get bombed yearly. Israel juat killed more than 22000 in the last 3 months and crippled thrice as many.

It's worse than an aprthied. It's much worse than being in prison of any first world country. And the only reason they have Hamas in control is because of these conditions.

[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

Yes

[–] filister@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It is really worrying that one war crime committed by Russia gets condemned unequivocally, while the same war crime committed by Israel is getting a pass.

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

That sounds a lot like antisemitism to idiots.

[+] letsgo@lemm.ee -27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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[–] Numberone@startrek.website 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm just curious how many Palestinians need to die, and how much of Gaza needs to be razed to dust before we're "even" in the minds of proponents that somehow this war is justified. Legitimately and in good faith, when are we "good" here?

[+] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I, for one, do think that the war against Hamas is justified. Israel's stated goal is to destroy Hamas military capabilities. The paradigm isn't tit-for-tat until they're "even". This isn't a slap contest. Israel's paradigm is overwhelming force to destroy the enemy as completely as possible, while also not completely nuking the civilian population. Hamas's paradigm is terrorism against primarily civilian targets, mainly to prevent Israel and the world from settling into complacency regarding the pre-October 7 state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Which is exactly what was happening before October 7.

No one knows when Israel will consider Hamas sufficiently degraded to end the war on their side. Of course, Hamas will never stop fighting Israel, even if there is a ceasefire. It'll just take another decade or so to build up their military capabilities again for another attack. Or, there may be a Third Intifadah and a return to suicide bombing and similar tactics. It's a mess (and always has been).

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How much of the population is acceptable as collateral damage? We're over 1%. Will you condemn Israel at 5%? 10%? 50%? 100%?

Murdering 1% of any countries civilians as collateral damage could never be justified.

[+] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world -7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No collateral damage is acceptable, but it is unrealistic to think that there will be no collateral damage in war. It is also unrealistic to think that Israel would not respond to the October 7 massacre, and unacceptable for Hamas to use the Palestinian people as human shields to avoid retaliation.

What does that boil down to? Israel has every right to strike back at Hamas. Hamas also has every right to fight against Israel. Because of the way Hamas has dug in to the civilian population and infrastructure, civilian casualties are a given. The number of civilian casualties is a function of two things:

How intensively Israel tries to kill Hamas and degrade their capabilities, and,
How effectively Hamas uses the Palestinian population as human shields.

In other words, both Israel and Hamas are to blame for civilian casualties. This is the same in every war. Civilians in a war zone always get fucked, no matter who started the war.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You said that Israel is justified in their war on Palestine. If no amount of collateral damage is acceptable, they would be no longer justified after the first civilians were killed, so you obviously do consider some amount of collateral damage as acceptable.

So I'll repeat my question: what is the percentage of the Palestine civilian population that has to be killed before Israel is no longer justified in their war? You can answer the question, or you can not do so. The implications of either option are hopefully clear to you.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago

What's the Russian equivalent of the Nakba?

[–] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes russia uses this as a justification for the attacks.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean Ukraine has been making attacks on Russian territory since 2022 with the current Russian aggression. For comparison Israeli aggression has been going since at least 1967, more realistically since the 20s/30s.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Israel used to be an apartheid state, but seeing the horrors they inflict right now it looks more like a nazi state. It ticks all the boxes: locked down ghettos, starvations, stopping press freedom, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

You're correct but this is not new. Israel was built on literal Lebensraum in 1949.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why the question mark? It's old news. Yet another thing where the world looks away, that's all.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/03/israels-55-year-occupation-palestinian-territory-apartheid-un-human-rights

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/19/israeli-apartheid-threshold-crossed

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't want to get hung up on semantics, I can certainly say it seems unfair. And the actions of Hamas are unforgivable, but imagine being born Palestinian. It must be really shit.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reminds me of the Bantustans in South Africa