Who’s to Blame For the Palestinians’ Plight?

[k1976]

Israel imposing apartheid on Palestinians, says former Mossad chief​

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Tamir Pardo comments, slammed by ruling Likud party, carry weight because of high regard for intelligence agency in Israel

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Chris McGreal
Wed 6 Sep 2023 23.12 BST

A former head of the Mossad intelligence agency has said Israel is imposing a form of apartheid on the Palestinians, joining a growing number of prominent Israelis to compare the occupation of the West Bank to South Africa’s defunct system of racial oppression.

But Tamir Pardo’s views will have added impact because of the high regard for Mossad in Israel and because they come at a time when far-right members of Israel’s government are moving to kill off any prospect of an independent Palestinian state.

Pardo told the Associated Press that Israel’s mechanisms for controlling the Palestinians, from restrictions on movement to placing them under military law while Jewish settlers in the occupied territories are governed by civilian courts, matched the old South Africa.

“There is an apartheid state here,” he said. “In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state.”

Pardo, 70, was appointed to head Mossad in 2011 by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister then and now. Netanyahu’s Likud party said Pardo “should be ashamed” of his comments.

“Instead of defending Israel and the Israeli military, Pardo slanders Israel,” it said.

Successive Israeli governments have fought back against accusations of apartheid by characterising them as antisemitic out of concern the charge will fuel a boycott movement or open the way to prosecutions under international laws against apartheid.

But such allegations become harder to dismiss when they come from those within the Israeli establishment.

Pardo told the AP his views on the system in the West Bank were “not extreme. It’s a fact.”

He also warned that what has been described as Israel’s “forever occupation” threatens its existence as a Jewish state. “Israel needs to decide what it wants,” he said. “A country that has no border has no boundaries.”

Pardo is among the highest ranking former officials to draw the once taboo parallel with the old South Africa. Israel’s former attorney general, Michael Ben-Yair, said last year “that my country has sunk to such political and moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime”.

The former speaker of the Israeli parliament, Avraham Burg, and the renowned Israeli historian, Benny Morris, are among more than 2,000 Israeli and American public figures who have signed a recent public statementdeclaring that “Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/19/israel-apartheid-state-south-africa-netanyahu
The open letter calls on US Jewish groups to speak out against the occupation of the Palestinian territories as “the elephant in the room” in the mass Israeli protests against Netanyahu’s deeply divisive judicial reforms which, it said, are intended to “annex more land, and ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population”.

Prominent foreign officials have also invoked apartheid to described the situation in the occupied territories.

Earlier this year, the former Irish president Mary Robinson and the former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon – representatives of The Elders group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007 – spoke about the “ever-growing evidence that the situation meets the international legal definition of apartheid” after visiting the West Bank.

They said Israeli government policies “clearly show an intent to pursue permanent annexation rather than temporary occupation, based on Jewish supremacy”.

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[blackmondy]

Do Hamas terrorists need subtitles for their interviews ?

 

[JohnTan]

Nice shopping mall and tourist video in the "open air prison".

 

[k1976]

Does Hamas terrorists need subtitles for their interviews ?

No wonder got Ang MO slant

The 3 gentleman should use their lup cheong to teach the AMDL a lesson

 

[syed putra]

False analogy. A lot of Jews started to move back to their ancestral Israel since 1918. Arabs tried to carry out ethnic cleansing of Jews long before 1948. Here's one example from 1929.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

The only people who tolerated outsiders into their archipelago are the malays. Our catastrophe.

 

[syed putra]

Nice shopping mall and tourist video in the "open air prison".

It is a prison. Half the suize of sinkie. Half the population.

 

[k1976]

The only people who tolerated outsiders into their archipelago are the malays. Our catastrophe.

No lah...it is the Orang Asali

 

[blackmondy]

Blame it on the Boogie.

 

[Hightech88]

 

[JohnTan]

It is a prison. Half the suize of sinkie. Half the population.

Prison? They have aircon malls and tourist advertisements. Now , they also have paragliding and drones to play with. Prison my foot!

 

[JohnTan]

The only people who tolerated outsiders into their archipelago are the malays. Our catastrophe.

The muuds tried to carry out ethnic cleansing of the chinks in the 1950s and 1960s. Even the muud polis joined in to kill the chinks. You deliberately ignored that part of history.

 

[k1976]

The muuds tried to carry out ethnic cleansing of the chinks in the 1950s and 1960s. Even the muud polis joined in to kill the chinks. You deliberately ignored that part of history.

513 incident?

 

[syed putra]

The muuds tried to carry out ethnic cleansing of the chinks in the 1950s and 1960s. Even the muud polis joined in to kill the chinks. You deliberately ignored that part of history.

The British tried to do a israel onto malay land without malay approval.

 

[JohnTan]

The British tried to do a israel onto malay land without malay approval.

The British sought approval from the muud's legal representative. He said ok and signed some papers. Deal done.

 

[JohnTan]

513 incident?

Bingo!

 

[syed putra]

The British sought approval from the muud's legal representative. He said ok and signed some papers. Deal done.

If that is the case Malays had the right to defend themselves from marauding invaders.

 

[JohnTan]

If that is the case Malays had the right to defend themselves from marauding invaders.

The muuds were the marauding invaders. The sultanates were established by foreigners who sailed to jiuhu from different islands.

None of that nusantara crap. No such country existed.

 

[duluxe]

Gaza Strip. The world"s largest open-air prison. With 2.3 million palestinians being oppressed on daily basis by Oppressor Israel

Before hamas's attack, Israel has been providing Gaza with free water and electricity. Gaza will be hell now as israel is cutting of supply and electricity.

 

[syed putra]

Before hamas's attack, Israel has been providing Gaza with free water and electricity. Gaza will be hell now as israel is cutting of supply and electricity.

Israel themselves gets billions in aid particularly from US and I think Germany as a gesture of regret to the past.

 

[Likemeat]

Before hamas's attack, Israel has been providing Gaza with free water and electricity. Gaza will be hell now as israel is cutting of supply and electricity.

I am sure u can sleep well fm now on.