The New York Times - JAN. 31, 2014
JERUSALEM — On Feb. 4, 1965, as a teenager, I left South Africa, the country of my birth, for a new home in a place I’d never been — Israel.
I
loved South Africa, but I loathed the apartheid system. In Israel, I
saw a fresh start for a people rising from the ashes of the Holocaust, a
place of light and justice, as opposed to the darkness and oppression
of apartheid South Africa.
Now,
almost 50 years later, after decades of arguing that Israel is not an
apartheid state and that it’s a calumny and a lie to say so, I sense
that we may be well down the road to being seen as one. That’s because,
in this day and age, brands are more powerful than truth and,
inexplicably, blindly, Israel is letting itself be branded an apartheid
state — and even encouraging it.
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Pro-Israeli Jews have a heard time distinguishing between the truth and their own propaganda. Walls, fences and maps do not lie, nor does a clear disparity between Israeli and Palestinian economies and lifestyles. When it chooses to, Israel controls what goes in and out of Palestine. It cannot be painted as jews wish, sorry guys. It's wrong and needs to change, and by international force if necessary.
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