Israel's apartheid doesn't stop at the West Bank

[Middle East News Service comments: This News Service is quick to point out cases of toning down of the Hebrew original in the translation of this and other newspapers. This time it’s the opposite. The Hebrew headline was much more circumspect: A lesson in Heritage. This would be recognisable to Israelis as an allusion to Binyamin Netanyahu’s recent announcement about heritage sites.

In terms of content this is a strong and powerful argument about the unequal treatment of Palestinian Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel. Whether you refer to it as Apartheid or not is very much a secondary issue what it encompasses, on the other hand, is the primary issue - Sol Salbe.]

Here is a civics lesson about the Zionist heritage, which has recently basked in the limelight of another government decision.

It has often been observed that poetry and lies have much in common, and this also applies to the state of Israel's founding document - the Declaration of Independence. It will "foster," it told me, "the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants... it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants." The document also calls upon "the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel" - not the "members of minorities," so beloved by the Zionist media - "to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions."

However, since its establishment the state has not kept its promise. It continues to conduct itself like a Zionist occupation regime on every inch of the land. True, the military government has been lifted and "the Arab inhabitants" are usually free to move around in their homeland and even send representatives to the Knesset - but this is the sum total of the equality that was formulated and promised.

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See the full article at: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1153555.html

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