From: Doug Berger
This quote sums up my thoughts on the current Israeli-Palestinian
standoff -- dlb
From: Top Israeli Official Warns Of An 'Apartheid State' Should
Two-State Solution Fail
"Indeed, the term is contentious, and using it in the
Israeli-Palestinian context often serves as a tool to shut down debate,
as Matt Yglesias once noted on this blog. "The use of the term
'apartheid' seems to shut down people's critical faculties and make them
defensive," he wrote back in 2010. "So I generally prefer to set it
aside. The point is that there's a political system in the West Bank
where the Jewish residents have the right to vote, have privileged
access to water, have exclusive access to some roadways, have privileged
rights to travel, etc., none of which are shared by the non-Jewish
residents. You can call it what you like, but it's not democracy.""
<http://is.gd/lgT1C3>
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Doug
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