- Bruce Dixon, Israeli Apartheid, The Black Commentator (lead story)
Imagine, if you will, a modern apartheid state with first, second and eleventh class citizens, all required to carry identification specifying their ethnic origin. First class citizens are obliged to serve in the armed forces, kept on ready reserve status until in their forties, and accorded an impressive array of housing, medical, social security, educational and related benefits denied all others.
Second class citizens are exempted from military service and from a number of the benefits accorded citizens of the first class. They are issued identity documents and license plates that allow them to be profiled by police at a distance. Second class citizens may not own land in much of the country and marriages between them and first class citizens are not recognized by the state. Second class citizens are sometimes arrested without trial and police torture, while frowned upon and occasionally apologized for, commonly occurs.
- Richard Falk, Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust, TFF: The Transnational Foundation (for Peace and Future Research), 29 June 2007; rep. at Z-Net
EXCERPT: Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not. The recent developments in Gaza are especially disturbing because they express so vividly a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an entire human community to life-endangering conditions of utmost cruelty.
Addendum
- Amira Hass on the 000s of Palestinian political prisoners: A Regrettable Indifference, Ha’aretz
- Khalid Mish’al: A time for joy and reflection, Guardian CIF
- Margaret Kimberley, The United States of Israel, Dissident Voice
- Serene Assir, No man’s land again: Palestinians stranded on the Egypt-Gaza border are now abandoned by all sides, Al-Ahram
- Gush Shalom Press Release, 6000 people stuck at Rafah Crossing – Israeli and European shame
