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Thread #150703   Message #3597757
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
03-Feb-14 - 03:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Of the other counties in the region, Israel is the most democratic and least dictatorial of them all, so why single them out?

Apartheid is about the treatment of minorities.
Of all the countries in the region, minorities get the best deal in Israel.
Christians for instance are being persecuted to extinction all over the region, except in Israel.
In Egypt, Bedouin are exiled to remote deserts, denied basic rights including employment rights and even citizenship, but not in Israel where they are flourishing and thriving.
Palestinians have full citizenship rights in Israel, but in neighbouring countries are still incarcerated in refugee camps after seventy years.
And then there is the Sunni/Shia sectarian violence in almost every country except Israel.
I ask again, of all the countries in the region, why have you singled them out for vilification?