While PBS’s top anchor, Amna Nawaz, is done with the b.s.

The New York Times Op-Ed page publishes Tareq Baconi stating that it’s apartheid. Nearly half of Democrats say Israel practices apartheid. Every human rights organization now calls Israel an apartheid state. It may not be an exact analogy, but it’s pretty close.įriedman is tough, but he feels the ground is shifting. But I don’t think there’s any way around it…Where does it leave us? The one that’s clearly being evoked more and more, is apartheid. Israel is a state that is built for, by and about Israeli Jews, that’s what it’s about. The pressure has mounted because even Jewish thinkers at the Council of Foreign Relations with liberal Zionist credentials say that it’s Jewish supremacy. He didn’t want the left to twist his words, he would say.įriedman’s concession reflects the pressure that is mounting inside the Beltway to acknowledge reality: Israel is devoted to Jewish supremacy, and its endless “Judaization” of Palestinian land has eliminated the possibility of a Palestinian state.

Well, better late than never! For years, Tom Friedman, the top foreign policy columnist in the country, refused to even consider the word apartheid. and the International Court that Israel is just temporarily occupying the West Bank - and therefore is not practicing some form of apartheid there If Netanyahu’s government is going to behave as if the West Bank is Israel…Why should the U.S. Netanyahu’s steady destruction of this shared fiction is now posing a real problem for other U.S. The important news in Tom Friedman’s latest column is that he uses the word “apartheid.” The New York Times columnist says Netanyahu has destroyed the happy “fiction” that the occupation of the West Bank is temporary, so Israel is “practicing some form of apartheid there.”

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