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NOVANEWS https://www.facebook.com/NewsNetworkTunisiaArabsAjamandBerbers/videos/569103546765397/ By Lawrence Davidson The inevitable apartheid nation We know where Zionism has taken Israel. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 led the way. In that imperial and colonial document, the British promised the World Zionist Organisation a “Jewish national home” in Palestine. They did so, as Edward Said put it, in “flat disregard of both the presence and wishes of the native majority residents in that territory”. Right from the start, the Zionists understood “national home” to mean an eventual Jewish state. Actualising that assumption has had enormous implications not only for the Palestinians, but also for the Jews. And, as it turns out, for the rest of us as well. There is no instance of Israeli pre...

NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson The inevitable apartheid nation We know where Zionism has taken Israel. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 led the way. In that imperial and colonial document, the British promised the World Zionist Organisation a “Jewish national home” in Palestine. They did so, as Edward Said put it, in “flat disregard of both the presence and wishes of the native majority residents in that territory”. Right from the start, the Zionists understood “national home” to mean an eventual Jewish state. Actualising that assumption has had enormous implications not only for the Palestinians, but also for the Jews. And, as it turns out, for the rest of us as well. There is no instance of Israeli prejudice exercised against the Palestinians, no act of violence committed against them...