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Jews to the Front - Arabs to the Rear
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THE NEW APARTHEID ENTRENCHES
ITSELF FURTHER IN THE HOLY LAND
MER - Nowhere else in
the world is institutionalized discrimination not only condoned but actually
touted as a "peace process".
One of the greatest
ironies of the last decade of the 20th century is that whereas the forced
separation known as "apartheid" in South Africa was condemened
and ended, the forced separation which marches forward under a twisted
form of "Zionism" has been glorified in the Middle East.
Yet not until the recent
years of the "peace process" have the institutions of a new Middle
Eastern apartheid become so widely accepted they they are not even recognized
when blatantly paraded in front of the world. The "Jews-only"
"By-pass" roads. The "pass-laws" and "road- blocks".
The division of historic Hebron into Jewish and Arab zonese. The advent
of "joint patrols" and different Jewish and Palestinian "police".
The fracturing of Palestinian areas into Areas A, B, C, with Palestinian
towns surrounded so that Bantustans and Reservations -- indeed "Ghettos"
-- are the closest historical analogies.
The situation has become
so accepted, so "normal", that now when an Israeli official says
we are going to build a Jewish neighborhood in one place, and an Arab neighborhood
in another, few seem to understand what this really means. It's really
"Arabs to the rear", "Palestinians to the back of the bus."
It's really a new and insidious Zionist-inspired Middle Eastern apartheid.
And what is happening today will haunt the Middle East and Arab- Jewish
relations for a very long time to come, while further fueling the a counter-reaction
in the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism and a counter- anti-Jewish racism
that exists within some elements of it.
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JEWS TO THE FRONT
ARABS TO THE REAR
"I AM CONVINCED THERE ARE NO CONCESSIONS REGARDING
THE BUILDING AT HAR HOMA AND I BELIEVE THAT IF THE PRIME MINSTER HAS PROMISED
BUILDING FOR ARAB CITIZENS, THIS IS OUR POLICY AFTER ALL...BUT IN ARAB
NEIGHBORHOODS, NOT IN JEWISH NEIGHBORHOODS."
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