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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Hold the phone, are you drawing some sort of moral equivalence between Israel and Apartheid South Africa?
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Surely this is not the first time you've heard Palestinians being described as living in an apartheid state. Even former President Jimmy Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Camp David Accords, has described it as such.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_...rtheid_analogy
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Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, Camp David Accords negotiator, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and author of the 2006 book titled Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, maintained in that book that Israel's options included a "system of apartheid, with two peoples occupying the same land but completely separated from each other, with Israelis totally dominant and suppressing violence by depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights. This is the policy now being followed, although many citizens of Israel deride the racist connotations of prescribing permanent second-class status for the Palestinians." Carter has also argued that the Israeli system in the Palestinian Territories, is in some cases more onerous than that of the apartheid government of South Africa, although it is not based on racism, rather on a desire by a minority of Israelis for Palestinian land.
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