Why is it ok for Israel to continue with apartheid but it wasn't ok for South Africa?
2006-12-23 05:16:51 · 15 answers · asked by janet 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Thanks to US...Every time Israel commits murder against the Palestinians,US takes care that Israel get away with it and continue its killings policy...We saw how many times thanks to US veto Israel got away with murder...The more recent example it's Beit Hanoun.They killed 19 innocent people and no one did anything.More they rejected the condemnation of the General UN assembly because "they don't see any reason to be punished since they already apologized for the killing of those people"...
So as long as it has US as its "guardian angel",Israel can do whatever it wants...
2006-12-23 05:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by Tinkerbell05 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
It's kept quiet because the United States backs and supports Israel.
How many times has the United Nations tried to condemn Israel's atrocities against the Palestinians? In all, at least 65 resolutions against Israeli's oppression have emerged, and every time, they were shot down, because the United States vetoes it.
It's unfortunate, but what else can be done when the country and its media is controlled by Pro-Israeli, Zionist thinktanks?
2006-12-23 15:05:59 · answer #2 · answered by Link 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That paid propagnadist for the Arabsm former president Jimmy Carter has come out with a new bestselling book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." It's not clear what he means by using the loaded word "apartheid", since the book makes no attempt to explain it, but the only reasonable interpretation is that Carter is comparing Israel to the former white racist government of South Africa. That is a foolish and unfair comparison, unworthy of the man who won - and deserved - the Nobel peace prize for bringing Israel and Egypt together in the Camp David Accords, and who has lent such lustre to the imaginary office of former president.
I mean, what's the parallel? Apartheid had a philosophical component and a practical one, both quite bizarre. Philosophically, it was committed to the notion of racial superiority. No doubt many Israelis have racist attitudes towards Arabs, but the official philosophy of the government is quite the opposite, and sincere efforts are made to, for example, instill humanitarian and egalitarian attitudes in children. That is not true, of course, in Arab countries, where hatred of Jews is a standard part of the curriculum.
The practical component of apartheid involved the creation of phoney nations called "Bantustans". Black South Africans would be stripped of their citizenship and assigned to far-away Bantustans where often they had never before set foot. The goal was a racially pure white South Africa, though the contradiction with the need for black labour was never resolved. Here might be a parallel with Israel, which needs the labour of the Arabs it is currently trying to keep out.
But in other ways, the implied comparison is backward. To start, no one has yet thought to accuse Israel of creating a phoney country in finally acquiescing to the creation of a Palestinian state. Palestine is no Bantustan. Or, if it is, it is the creation of Arabs, not Jews. Furthermore, Israel has always had Arab citizens. They are Arabs who were living in what became Israel prior to 1948 and who didn't leave. No doubt they suffer discrimination. Nevertheless, they are citizens with the right to vote and so on. There used to be Jews living in Arab nations, but they also fled in 1948 and subsequent years - in numbers roughly equivalent to the Arabs who fled Israel. Now there are virtually no Jews in Arab countries - even in a moderate Arab country like Jordan. How many Jews do you think there will be in the new sovereign state of Palestine?
And the most tragic difference: apartheid ended peacefully. This is largely thanks to Nelson Mandela, who turned out to be miraculously forgiving. If Israel is white South Africa and the Palestinians are supposed to be the black population, where is their Mandela?
2006-12-23 14:04:39 · answer #3 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Simple. Because there is no apartheid going on in Israel, despite Jimmy Carter's insistence that there is.
I just love how people like you whine and complain that things are being "kept quiet" when the truth is that you have an ex president saying whatever he wants and no one is "keeping him quiet". You probably view critisim of him as "censorship".
2006-12-23 20:11:29 · answer #4 · answered by BMCR 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Israel is the one that keeps being told that they will be destroyed and wiped off the face of the earth. Yet when Israel strikes back they are racist and warmongers.
The Palestine's vote in all Israeli elections and have a voice in the government and yet when Israel tried to keep the killers from getting into their country they are racist.
You seem to be the one who is racist against Israel!
2006-12-23 14:57:03 · answer #5 · answered by fatboysdaddy 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The whole world knows except the Americans , the only country who is letting Israel do it by letting Israel use American veto power in the UN
For a detailed answer as to why the media is quiet, please read "The Greatest Story Ever Sold" by Frank Rich, a US Best Seller.
2006-12-23 13:52:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because Israel wants the world to see it as the "innocent lamb". So Israel does its best to hide its crimes against Palestinian people.
Well, we know that Arabs and the tribe of Israel(Jews) are both Semites. Israelis say that Abraham married two women. One of them was "Sarah" and she was the lady, and the other was "Hajer" and she was a former servant. Abraham had children from "Sarah" such as : Jacob, Isaac who were the forefathers of the Jews. And he had (Ismael) from "Hajer". (Ismael) was the father of Arabs. So some Israelis look down at Arabs (even Arab Jews) when they say that Arabs are the sons of the servant (Hajer) and Israelis are the sons of the lady (Sarah).
2006-12-23 15:44:29 · answer #7 · answered by MagicWand 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because muslims call christians and jews apes and pigs and that's OK but, draw a picture of mohammad and say islam isn't a religion of peace and muslims riot and saw the heads off of people and shoot nuns in the back.
Sister Leonella, 65, was shot in the back four times by pistol-wielding attackers as she left the Austrian-run S.O.S. hospital at lunch time after finishing nursing school for trainee medics.
2006-12-23 13:36:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Because they have the backing of the American government:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5098533635621767092&q=September+11th+the+Con+the+Conspiracy+the+Cover-up+of+911+Part+2&hl=en
Sorry to shake your reality.
Did you know all the media is owned by Jewish people? All except Fox. Hmmm...and the Israeli prime minister is so bold to say he actually owns America....berry, berry interesting.
2006-12-23 13:34:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
Cos America is a super power, and who backs Israel up to the hilt????? There's yr answer.
2006-12-23 13:25:36 · answer #10 · answered by english_rose10 3 · 7⤊ 4⤋