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Proof of Israeli apartheid policies in its own document

"President Jimmy Carter angered Israel and its friends by describing "the abominable oppression and persecution in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a rigid system of required passes and strict segregation between Palestine's citizens and Jewish settlers in the West Bank."

Now, The Electronic Intifada has obtained an Israeli Ministry of Defense Powerpoint presentation which provides a frightening glimpse into the mindset of the bureaucracy of apartheid."

Nothing need to be added to or said about the Israeli document. It speaks volumes on it own!

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Michael said…
Leaving aside, for the moment, the fact that EI is a simple shill for terrorists, how do you even know that "document" is genuine?

For starters, it is in English... Israeli Ministry of Defense business (remember, this is supposed to be an internal document) is conducted in Hebrew...

Second, there is far more detail in this than the Army ever lets out about anything... The Israeli MoD won't even say the number of Israeli soldiers under arms... and you think they'd put a power point online with this kind of detail?

Finally, back to the very first point, the restrictions on the palestinians are not apartheid, they are security. The palestinians have shown, consistently, time after time, that they have chosen a course of violence.

Israel pulled out of Gaza, and got a huge increase in rocket fire in return...

Israel left the agricultural infrastructure there intact, and palestinian mobs looted and destroyed the greenhouses...

Israel pulled out of Lebanon, and Hezbollah crossed the border to attack...

And after Abbas' recent Fatah rally speech, in which he said that killing Israelis is OK, even the Olmert gov't is getting ready to give up on him...

Suicide vests and bombers are routinely located and stopped coming from the West Bank, and in recent months, palestinian terrorist groups have tried new tactics: putting bombs in toys, or lacing the shrapnel with rat poison...

What country can be expected to stand still and just take such attacks, without trying to protect its people. Are the security measures difficult for the palestinians? I have no doubt. But the Israeli gov't has judged, correctly, that its first responsibility is to protect its own people.
January 29, 2007 5:28 pm
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