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How to avoid apartheid
Yonatan Gher
Published: 18.12.13, 19:55
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1. Shame!!!
Abraham Nachmias ,   Petach Tikva IL   (12.18.13)
What can you expect of an employe of anti Israeli NGOs?
2. Few criminal acts during Apartheid,now crime is skyrocketing
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.18.13)
3. south africa has more apartheid than does israel. stop fooll
crap   (12.18.13)
stupid leftist thinking.
4. In 1984 15% Black unemployment in Apartheid, today 25%
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.18.13)
5. Racial tensions were kept in check in Apartheid, today Black
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.18.13)
on Black racism causes many thousands of deaths.
6. FW de Klerk was much more courageous than Mandela ever was
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.18.13)
7. Go back to bed&wake up in 15 - 20 years when you're grown up
Moshe ,   Usa   (12.18.13)
You're such a hero.
8. good article by brave author that will either...
arik ,   usa   (12.18.13)
fall on deaf ears or prompt personal attacks on the author to deflect from the issues he raises in his article. I have full faith in the readers of this webpage that they will dutifully fall into this second category.
9. Well said.
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (12.18.13)
10. Nespotic Tribal and socioeconomic apartheid
Zechariah   (12.18.13)
The cruel apartheid has been replaced by extreme socioeconomic equality even private water companies huge unemployment Heinious Crime and Murder and Assualt Rates Rampant Corruption and a President Booed at Mandelas funeral.So not a Utopia .Israel can allow a Demilitirized autonomy zone for Palestinians but cannot allow Islamic Jihadi or the Fatah Baath to get any strength .The Jordan valley and parts of area C need to be Rapid Deployment and Iron Clad Defensive Military Armies Protecting the Holy Land from psychoCults with WMD well into the next Milenia.
11. Apartheid is alive and well in South Africa...
Ivan ,   South Africa   (12.18.13)
to-day its the whites that are the under dogs...
12. HIV/AIDS non-existent in Apartheid, today highest in world
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.18.13)
13. Average Black lived on $2/day in Apartheid, today only $1
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.18.13)
14. Mandela never criticized Arabs current enslavement of Blacks
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.18.13)
15. Nelson Mandela: Best friend of Qaddafi, supported tyrants
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.18.13)
16. Steve Benassi,
arne ,   chicago usa   (12.18.13)
Your busy on this one. Something must have happened today to set you off, but truth be told we have had our own problems with crime since the 60's.That's the way people respond when to much "freedom" is given to the people who don't know how to handle it.
17. Issue is saturated, too much talk about Mandela.
David Silversteen ,   Berlin, Germany   (12.18.13)
Israel's People never supported the apartheid regime. That Israel now didn't even send one single gov representative, has been marked by Black People, they reproached to me, Israel would "humiliate" South Africa and the Blacks. Israel must immediately send Bibi to fix this, and stop already, this is the third or fourth article about South Africa. I am fed up and tired, I said my shtickale, that I am against apartheid. Also, with the anti-antizionism new law, Israel does in no way loose its democracy, as Minister Livni falsely claimed it would. So please, start talking about useful stuff and don't waste time with the past. Dig into the past, where we can find out new stuff, okay? I told my Black Friends what the other author wrote, that Israel found no friends among almost all other African Nations in the 60ies and 70ies,and that was the "reason", Israel clung to SouthAfrica. Jews are no exploiters,but mostly artists,but to 5 percent biz men who are sucessful,okay and smart. That's why others are jealous. That is, is the whole story. So, TV off, shut it all down xept the net. And delete nazis from the net and from reality. Thank you. Do what I say you, or... !
18. None of the above are mine.
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.18.13)
19. The Author is a Snake.
A Yid ,   Tel Avi v   (12.18.13)
Gher admits he doesn't use "apartheid" in taking about Israel not because he doesn't believe the term is correct, but because it exposes him as a foreign funded enemy of Israel. In other words, it shows him to be a traitor. Amnesty International is paid by Arab and EU governments to defame Israel the Jewish people. Shame on Gher.
20. amnesty international funded by enemies of israel
david ,   new york   (12.18.13)
executives in amnesty international are being paid silicon valley salaries in order to spread anti-israel hatred. we need to pass a law outlawing foreign funded activists from operating in israel. we dont allow foreigners to finance election campaigns in israel, similarly they should not be able to finance propaganda any time of the year.
21. How to avoid a comet that will pass
Erez   (12.18.13)
a galaxy situated 12.000 light years from earth? Why, for the life of me, thinking in avoiding something which is non existent in Israel, in its culture, in its policy and its character? Must we give to a member of the foreign jewish legion of mercenaries, like this Jonatan Gher, a pulpit they fell like spouting nonsense generously payed by the EU and Saudi Arabia? By the way, political correctness aside, Nelson Mandela was a terrorist, chief of a gang of bloody terrorists no matter how wrong Apartheid was. And a friend of another egyptian architerrorist like "Yasser Arafat", so Jonatan, go preach to your mother.
22. 19 & 20 Amnesty international and Israel
Non Jewish immigrant ,   Haifa   (12.18.13)
That's because Israel is against peace that amnesty intl is an "enemy" of yours
23. no. 18 - of course not yours because they are all true
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24. Nobody has the right to judge jews.
O Yosef.   (12.18.13)
25. no. 22, you Non-citizen don't count. Do not read his comment
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26. 22
jonathan ,   adelaide/Israel   (12.19.13)
If Israel is against peace why do you live there?
27. Unlike Gher, I fought apartheid
Sidney ,   USA   (12.19.13)
I am totally offended by his suggestion that Israel has any characteristics of apartheid. Enemies of Israel and their fellow travelers love the term but never apply it to a Muslim country which discriminates against both Christians and Jews. Saudi Arabia and others go to the ultimate, they do not allow Jews to live there. Gher like all the other useful idiots in Amnesty International have no idea of what apartheid means. When I lived in the American South, Blacks were separated in buses, had separate toilets, were excluded from most restaurants, could not drink from public fountains, etc. World renowned artists and top athletics could not stay in motels with their white companions. The discrimination in Israel is due to a single fact, security, Israelis don't like being blown up.
28. "Not mine"
Habib Seliman ,   New York, USA   (12.19.13)
To bad, many of us actually like the new Steve B better than the old. Let's give you a Hebrew name, how about SBH. H is for hadash which means new in Hebrew.
29. These comments make me want to leave.
Aaron ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (12.19.13)
If these comments are any indicator of the thinking majority's opinion, boy was I wrong about Israel being a modern and peaceful society! You guys are nuts. Sincerely, Right-wing settler, but at least a logical thinker.
30. To the author:
solomon ,   bklyn   (12.19.13)
Just as the Shoah was the Shoa, with no comparison to anything else, apartheid is apartheid, with no comparison to anything else. Prejudice in Israel? Yes. Apartheid? No. You exaggerate to get attention to your cause. As you do by bringing in the words “occupation, despoliation, and torture. Discrimination and humiliation? Yes. But you cheapen them by bringing in words that are not connected to reality. If you want a conversation, use words that are accurate.
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