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Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Apartheid defined under international lawApartheid is defined as an institutionalized form of racism in which a state enacts laws to establish and maintain domination by one racial group of persons over others in order to systematically oppress them.
"Israel is a wonderful place to live and we are happy to be there. Israel is a free and open country. If I were given the choice, I would rather live in Israel as a second class citizen than as a first class citizen in Cairo, Gaza, Amman or Ramallah.“ Khaled Abu Toameh. Journalist, April 22, 2009
“. . . I am a proud Israeli citizen but that doesn’t mean I can’t criticize it…. The existence of discrimination in a state does not mean it is an apartheid state…There is a big difference between apartheid and discrimination,”. . . “In an apartheid regime, there is no possibility of judicial review, because the judges are appointed by the regime and all serve one ideology. . . There is a very strong, independent Supreme Court in Israel. In an apartheid regime [unlike in Israel] there is no place to go to argue against the government,”
Dr. Mohammed Wattad, an Israeli-Palestinian Member of the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a 2010 interview
What do prominent Israeli Arabs say?
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