Is Apartheid really dead?

Question

"......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

Though this is not a subject about South Africa (but about a system of enforced separation on grounds of race or religion as in the USA in the fifties), nevertheless the theories relating to 'reversed apartheid' in Africa are interesting. The author of the quoted article was talking about the area of the world known for millenia as 'Palestine' and which, 60 years ago, was re-christened 'Israel'. Intelligent answers on both sides here; you should see the reaction from the tourism section.

Answer 1

Earlier in another question about American Indians, if it contained monetary value for the world to enforce it, the US should give them their own land, have it as their own country just as the world did with Israel. From that moment, we (the world) created the paradox and mess in the middle east.

What happened in South Africa, is very much the same that is going on in Israel/Palestine. Israelis at the moment have everything and treat the Palestinians worse than dogs. Israel who once were victims of Hitler, are now the perpertrators of evil.

Apartheid is not dead and never will be until we can all view each other as equals.

Answer 2

i assume the muslim therapy of christians and different non secular minorities in places like Pakistan, Iran, Saudi and Sudan may nicely be when compared with the former apartheid regimes, except that i do not see it anymore. EDIT: the author of the article you've observed may nicely be too youthful to bear in options what apartheid replaced into (you too for that count number), yet considering that arabs are allowed to be in the knesset/marry israelis/attend cinemas/faculties/eating places with israelis, the apartheid label won't be able to be utilized to Israel. on the different hand in islamic countries the position the testimony of a christian = partial testimony of a muslim and so on., there are similarities. i'd be hesitant to stay with the time period to muslims inspite of the actuality that, that's for sure an attempt to target to bypass an agenda ahead on the backs of the evils suffered by ability of the black south africans in the apartheid days.

Answer 3

As long as Israel occupies Palestine, oppresses the Palestinians, brutally murders milions while living even more homeless and orphaned then no, apartheid is not dead there is a Holocaust happening in Palestine since 1948 and it won't end until Israel is gone.

Answer 4

No absolutely not. It may be that no longer is the afrikaner suppressing the backs anymore, but now the blacks are suppressing the whites. We still have apartheid in SA just in the reverse. I would think that if you had something bad done to you that you would learn from it and not wish to impose that on others. But this is not the case. Affirmative action on a minority group where the majority is benefitted is nothing short of a form of slow genocide. In my state the whites are 400000 to 8million blacks. If the whites have to wait for 70% of the blacks to get jobs they will be extinct! So do you think apartheid is dead?

Answer 5

Apartheid is a manifestation of racism and if you think that is dead, you're dreaming. Segregation and depressed economic opportunities of weaker ethnic groups is prevalent, to greater or lesser degrees, in every culture mankind has yet produced. A more pertinent question would be is slavery really dead?

Answer 6

I don't believe apartheid is dead. Black South Africans still live in appalling poverty compared to most whites. And I've noticed that there are a lot of white South Africans coming to the UK - presumably because they don't like the fact that they are no longer 100% in control in their homeland. I have also noticed that some of these white South Africans display worrying signs of bigotry which is not exactly healthy in our multi-ethnic society.

Answer 7

Apartheid as a trait cannot be declared dead like any other human trait. It is to remain, appear here and there and people will continue to suffer on this account.

Answer 8

no. abject poverty, terrorism and slavery
are still alive and well in africa.
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Answer 9

Not to the illegal narcotics abusers that fried their moronic brains during the late 1960's, of whom many are calling the shots within our corruptament:(

Answer 10

Nice write-up. No its not dead as long as Israel occupies the palestinians.