Carter on Israeli "Apartheid"

[Tom Odom]

While acknowledging that the word "apartheid" refers to the system of legal racial separation once used in South Africa, Carter says in his book that it is an appropriate term for Israeli policies devoted to "the acquisition of land" in Palestinian territories through Jewish settlements and Israel's incorporation of Palestinian land on its side of a separating wall it is erecting.

He criticizes suicide bombers and those who "consider the killing of Israelis as victories" but also notes that "some Israelis believe they have the right to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land and try to justify the sustained subjugation and persecution of increasingly hopeless and aggravated Palestinians."

Apparently former President Carter's book is causing a dust up according to the Washington Post.

It is one of the strengths of the ISG report that they resurfaced this issue as a core element in US foreign policy on the Middle East.

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Tom