"......Nor did the Palestinians err when they compared (George Bush's) statement to the Balfour Declaration (the British government's first world war promise to establish a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine) - even if they perhaps failed to grasp that the statement is liable to have implications yet more grave than the 1917 pledge, and will compel a substantive strategic change in their struggle.
And Sharon - will be surprised to discover that in Washington he was pushed into embracing an accelerated process of founding the state of Israel as a binational state based on apartheid. ...
"The day will come when believers in this illusion will realise that "separation" is a means to oppress and dominate... "
· Meron Benvenisti, Israeli writer, political scientist and former deputy mayor of Jerusalem.
So the questions is; Is Apartheid really dead?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1203181,00.html
2007-03-17
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