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Your a bird brain Wow. You see nothing wrong with 365 children being slaughtered in ten days by YOUR IDF yet crap your pants with fake agony when five land poachers get killed in retaliation YOu Sicko

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Regarding apartheid, the team found that Israel's laws and policies in the OPT fit the definition of apartheid in the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. Israeli law conveys privileges to Jewish settlers and disadvantages Palestinians in the same territory on the basis of their respective identities, which function in this case as racialised identities in the sense provided by international law. Israel's practices are corollary to five of the six 'inhuman acts' listed by the Convention. A policy of apartheid is especially indicated by Israel's demarcation of geographic ‘reserves' in the West Bank, to which Palestinian residence is confined and which Palestinians cannot leave without a permit. The system is very similar to the policy of ‘Grand Apartheid' in apartheid South Africa, in which black South Africans were confined to black homelands delineated by the South African government, while white South Africans enjoyed freedom of movement and full civil rights in the rest of the country.

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IF ISRAEL IS WORTHY OF RESPECT SO SHALL SHE BE RESPECTED

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And confusion

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---This Thread is Open----"God" Speed Silver Birch---

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Nope, there's no multiple-persona's going on here

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YOu must be blond.

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No, sir YOU Shut Up. If you can't post a rebuttal, SHUT UP. Haven't got the gray matter to come up with something original? What else is new But please spare yourself MORE embarrassment, go away.

Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid, Executive Summary or Full Study

Regarding colonialism, the team found that Israel's policy and practices violate the prohibition on colonialism which the international community developed in the 1960s in response to the great decolonisation struggles in Africa and Asia. Israel's policy is demonstrably to fragment the West Bank and annex part of it permanently to Israel, which is the hallmark of colonialism. Israel has appropriated land and water in the OPT, merged the Palestinian economy with Israel's economy, and imposed a system of domination over Palestinians to ensure their subjugation to these measures. Through these measures, Israel has denied the indigenous population the right to self-determination and indicated clear intention to assume sovereignty over portions of its land and natural resources. Permanent annexation of territory in this fashion is the hallmark of colonialism

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Wish I could be so passive sir. But my country is being railroaded by these flim-flam artist so I have to be here!

Ah look who shows up at 7 AM her time, along with her soul sister Luara (It's 2 AM for her and they always seem to show up at the SAME TIME Just kindred spirits i guess

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SA academic study finds that Israel is practicing apartheid and colonialism in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (HSRC) has released a study indicating that Israel is practicing both colonialism and apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The study is being posted for public debate on this website.

The interim report, which will form part of a discussion at an upcoming HSRC conference on the subject, titled Re-envisioning Israel/Palestine, on 13 and 14 June in Cape Town, serves as a document to be finalised later this year.

The HSRC commissioned an international team of scholars and practitioners of international public law from South Africa, the United Kingdom, Israel and the West Bank to conduct the study. The resulting 300-page draft, titled Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?: A re-assessment of Israel's practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law, represents 15 months of research and constitutes an exhaustive review of Israel's practices in the OPT according to definitions of colonialism and apartheid provided by international law. The project was suggested originally by the January 2007 report by eminent South African jurist John Dugard, in his capacity as Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Council, when he indicated that Israel practices had assumed characteristics of colonialism and apartheid

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Four decades later, the increasingly complex world of Israel's system of classification deems Said Rhateb to be a resident of the West Bank - somewhere he has never lived - and an illegal alien for living in the home in which he was born, inside the Jerusalem boundary. Jerusalem's council forces Rhateb to pay substantial property taxes on his house but that does not give him the right to live in it, and he is periodically arrested for doing so. Rhateb's children have been thrown out of their Jerusalem school, he cannot register a car in his name - or rather he can, but only one with Palestinian number plates, which means he cannot drive it to his home because only Israeli-registered cars are allowed within Jerusalem - and he needs a pass to visit the centre of the city. The army grants him about four a year.

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----This Thread Is Allowed to Continue By Moderators----Peace Silver Birch ---God Speed

The population was not so neatly divided. Arabs in the area were registered as living in the village - even those, like Rhateb's parents, whose homes were inside what was now defined as Jerusalem. In time, the Israelis gave the Rhatebs identity cards that classified them as residents of the West Bank, under military occupation. When Said Rhateb was born, he too was listed as living outside the city's boundaries. His parents thought little of it as they moved freely across the invisible line drawn by the Israelis, shopping and praying inside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City

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Said Rhateb was born in 1972, five years after Israeli soldiers fought their way through East Jerusalem and claimed his family's dry, rock-strewn plot as part of what the Jewish state proclaimed its "eternal and indivisible capital". The bureaucrats followed in the army's footsteps, registering and measuring Israel's largest annexation of territory since its victory over the Arab armies in the 1948 war of independence. They cast an eye over the Rhateb family's village of Beit Hanina and its lands, a short drive from the biblical city on the hill, and decided the outer limits of this new Jerusalem. The Israelis drew a line on a map - a new city boundary - between Beit Hanina's lands and most of its homes. The olive groves and orchards were to be part of Jerusalem; the village was to remain in the West Bank.

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I'll ask once that you post in a civil manner or I'll have no recourse but to report the post. As we both know there is little or no even keeled reprimand policy in place here, sophomoric comments( like yours) are either allowed to run or is yanked. This is done with very little logical consistency but, so goes the territory.

Be polite

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Don't under estimate the power of Truth

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Apartheid. Two people , living on the same land, and having two separate sets of rules,..One set of rules applies to one seemingly more "select" group and another set of "rules" ,( usually much more restrictive), apply to the "lesser than" people.

The quintessential example of this , is Israel today.

"The beacon of Democracy" seems more like a display of modern day fascism complete with the "super race" and the "lesser thans"?

Remember, again, report these people. I have, it seems to fall on deaf ears, as the insults still come, and none of them get any "time outs" ,..but, it's all good as long as we keep getting the true "word" out about these people. Peace

Peace Fred.

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I have tried twice to explore the concept of Apartheid in Israel here and both times my multi-faceted antagonists (pl?) have succeeded in their tantrums and antics to render the thread "locked".

Lets begin again. Apartheid.

RE: Why do folk with agendas try to push loaded questions.

RE: Why do folk with agendas try to push loaded questions.

Fool

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Who's land is the West Bank and Gaza? Who's land are the settlement blocs on? this is getting better by the minute.

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Where DO they live Conrad? You can't answer can you,..? Typical flim flam.

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Or is it your solipsist perspective, THEY just don't exist? Do they? Reilly

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Where do the four million Palestine s live Conrad?

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They don't live in Israel!!!!!!!

Tell me then ,..Where do they live???????????'

And tell me WHO LIVES THERE (FILL IN THE BLANK)

WITH THEM?????????????????????? i e settlements , military outposts annexed land,.?????????????

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And if you say Israel, (which I doubt) then tell me, what is their status there? Citizen? Prisoner? Illegal alien? Alien? Visitor?

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Ok Conrad, tell me, WHERE DO THE FOUR MILLION PALESTINE S LIVE.

And remember, this is not a "yes" or "no" question.

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Which ones Conrad, Bigot? Hypocritical? Dual standards? So what are the Palestine s Conrad, you haven't answered that one yet. Are they prisoners? Conrad? What are they doing there Conrad?

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I guess you've never studied logic either.