Why 'Israel' deserves to be called an apartheid state
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs his weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on April 14. (Ronen Zvulun / AP)
To the editor: One reader’s letter defending Israel against charges of being an apartheid state demands a rebuttal.
First, the apartheid claim rests not on the second-class citizenship of Arab residents within Israel proper (as un-fully democratic as this is), but on a half-century of egregiously discriminatory non-citizenship of Palestinians in the West Bank.
Second, Israel has been flagrantly violating international law since 1967 through its colonizing West Bank settlements.
Third, Palestinians have rejected Israel's long-term peace proposals because they failed to deal equitably with the settlement issue.
Fourth, while ...