{"id":13846,"date":"2014-04-29T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13846"},"modified":"2014-04-29T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T11:43:06","slug":"kerry-calls-for-an-apartheid-state-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13846","title":{"rendered":"Kerry calls for an Apartheid state in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mandela_israeli_apartheid\"<\/a>The US Secretary of State said that if Israel doesn\u2019t make peace soon, it could become “an apartheid state”, like the old South Africa. Many\u00a0are fuming over the ill-informed\u00a0comparison.<\/p>\n

Kerry is clearly confused about apartheid, since the two-state solution implies apartheid rather than a single state containing both Jews and Arabs.<\/p>\n

Kerry warned that if there was no “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming \u201can apartheid state\u201d.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Kerry confused\u00a0a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday about seperate development, ethnic selfrule and notions of Jewishness.<\/p>\n

Senior American officials have rarely, if ever, used the term \u201capartheid\u201d in reference to Israel, and President Obama has previously rejected the idea that the word should apply to the Jewish state.<\/p>\n

Kerry’s use of the loaded term is already rankling Jewish leaders in America\u00a0because it\u00a0is bound to\u00a0attract unwanted attention to Israel.<\/p>\n

Kerry also repeated his warning that a failure of Middle East peace talks could lead to a resumption of Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens. He suggested that a change in either the Israeli or Palestinian leadership could make achieving a peace deal more feasible. He lashed out against Israeli settlement-building.<\/p>\n

Kerry told his audience that\u00a0a unitary state “winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens, or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state\u201d.<\/p>\n

The US nevertheless imposed a unitary state solution on South Africa, strangely, to “end apartheid”. They have now changed course 180 degrees on the matter it seems.<\/p>\n

According to the 1998 Rome Statute, the \u201ccrime of apartheid\u201d is defined as \u201cinhumane acts\u2026 committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.\u201d The term is most often used in reference to the system of racial segregation and oppression that governed South Africa from 1948 until 1994.<\/p>\n

A two-state solution and claims of Jewishness imply racial segregation however.<\/p>\n

Former president Jimmy Carter came under fire in 2007 for titling his book on Middle East peace Palestine: Peace or Apartheid.<\/p>\n

Carter explained after publishing the book that he was referring to apartheid-type policies in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cApartheid is a word that is an accurate description of what has been going on in the West Bank, and it\u2019s based on the desire or avarice of a minority of Israelis for Palestinian land,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s leaders have employed the term as well. In 2010 former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak used language very similar to Kerry\u2019s. \u201cIf this bloc of millions of \u00adPalestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerry suggested in March that if peace talks fail, it would bolster the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.<\/p>\n

Time and demographics are on the Palestinian side, and Israel has to confront notions of the Jewishness of the state,\u00a0Kerry implied, further strengthening the notion that the US would like to see apartheid being applied to Israel sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US Secretary of State said that if Israel doesn\u2019t make peace soon, it could become “an apartheid state”, like the old South Africa. Many\u00a0are fuming over the ill-informed\u00a0comparison. Kerry is clearly confused about apartheid, since the two-state solution implies apartheid rather than a single state containing both Jews and Arabs. Kerry warned that if … Continue reading “Kerry calls for an Apartheid state in Israel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[164,5318,2791,664,8885,8886,4766,2789],"class_list":["post-13846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-apartheid","tag-bds","tag-john-kerry","tag-palestine","tag-two-state-solution","tag-unitary-state","tag-us-secretary-of-state","tag-west-bank"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mandela_israeli_apartheid.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13848,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions\/13848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}