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Apartheid is 66 years old
Khaled Titi
Published: 13.05.14, 21:34
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31. "Jewish State" by ethnic cleansing is racist, will not stand
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (05.13.14)
32. Apartheid is 66 years old
Harold ,   USA   (05.13.14)
Confiscating other lands and humiliating their legitimate owners is a kind of apartheid rule. Will Khalid Titi be put in jail for 18 years like what they did to Mordechai Vanunu.
33. He should know, his people started it...
Larry ,   LA (formerly)   (05.14.14)
It is and was the Arabs who did not and still do not want peace. It is the Arabs who will kill any Jew who happens to walk down their city street. Come to Jerusalem and see how Arab men and women walk freely then go to Ramallah, Jenin, etc and dress like a Jew and see what happens to you. Does Ynet have to put lies like this on their site?
34. #4, except it does
Danny   (05.14.14)
As a good jew you should know this
35. apartheid
linda ,   Paris, France   (05.14.14)
Racial apartheid means consider un other people inferior, consider himself superior and treat the other in accordance with that hierarchy. Or nothing like that in Israel as a country about the Palestinians. Unfortunately we are actually ennemies... and that provokes security mesures and also battle for demographics majority. I don't want to imagine the inverse case, knowing that in Coran and in many imans prays today Jews are named "pigs" and "monkeys". But that's another history.
36. One controls the others "freedom" to plant bombs
Yael Schlichting ,   Munich - Germany   (05.14.14)
37. Khaled dishonest mental fabrication not reality of all
(05.14.14)
Palestinians have areas A in which they have autonomy and they would have a state more quickly if they did not continually withdraw from negotiations. In Israel, Israeli Palestinians althoughfor the vast majority dont participate as full citizens in that they do not serve in the IDF . They have complete freedom in the constitution as enshrined even if like ethnic communities they prefer to live in their suburbs and towns. He confuses apartheid and the characteristics of any generally poor minority . In fact in some quarters by his argument he would say that the Hasidim suffer apartheid , but again its by generally self choices. His selective perspective distorts reality and tries to paint an expressionist picture of Israel . Rearding the 'occupied' territories of areas C this could change if he and his fellow israeli palestinians and west bank and gaza palestinians engaged in peace more rather than destructive tactics.
38. Bravo, Sa'id Tili! You just have outlied Herr Goebbels himse
msh ,   Haifa   (05.14.14)
39. #19 There are Arabs in every Israeli city!
Shmilfke ,   Dublin   (05.14.14)
I can't think of a single Israeli city that doesn't have at least some Arabs! Not counting tiny Kibbutzes
40. Arabs like to live in Israel
i.zwick ,   nyc   (05.14.14)
If Arabs feel they are living in an apartheid government, why aren't they lining up to leave? The truth is that they like living in Israel. They are leaving the other Arab countries to go to Europe and North America, but they stay in Israel for the freedom and benefits.
41. #30
Harold ,   USA   (05.14.14)
Then why Jews were living happily in Arab states for 1400 years. The Jews traded, educated and even occupied sensitive jobs in Arab states until the creation of Israel on May 14th, 1948.
42. PROOF!
tiki ,   belgium   (05.14.14)
This article is the proof of the opposite! The claim "66 years apartheid" is the proof of ill intentions of the Arabs & Arab Palestinians! The arguments made by this 'Israeli Knesset parliamentary assistant of an Arab party member proves his total ignorance & utter stupidity.
43. #32 Please explain, bumpkin,what is
A ,   Belgium   (05.14.14)
"a kind of apartheid rule"? Is it the kind that allows arabs to study in Israeli universities, become lawyers, doctors even treasonous politicians like Tibi and Zoabi? Is it the kind that allows garbage articles like this one to be posted on an Israeli website? Is it the kind that allows ignorant twits as yourself to post whatever untrue nonsense that pops into their head? By the way, bumpkin, Vanunu leaked important secrets about Israels nuclear program and deserved 180 years in prison.
44. Khaled is confused
halloof ,   Canada   (05.14.14)
There are two nations within the green line that have strong cultural differences. Arabs tend to live in Arab towns and Jews in Jewish towns because people are inclined to stay with a familiar neighborhood. That is why New York has a Chinatown and Little Italy. Nothing to call Apartheid.
45. To: No. 41
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.14.14)
Harold, not even you could possibly be THAT dumb. Apart from the lunacy of your comment, may I point out that the modern State of Israel was re-established in 1948. The State of Israel was created while your ancestors were painting their faces blue, hanging from trees and howling at the moon.
46. #43
Harold ,   USA   (05.14.14)
Those who are studying at Israeli universities built on Palestinian occupied lands are Israeli Arabs and carry Israeli Passports and not like those who used forged passport to enter foreign countries. Hope you understand me.
47. #31 #31.Minnesota was "ethnically cleansed" of its
A ,   Belgium   (05.14.14)
rightful inhabitants and it seems to be standing up pretty good, except for a certain deranged national socialst workers party wannbee from Silver Lake.
48. @4 Nazareth
Raphael ,   Netanya   (05.14.14)
Has no marina either. Another evidence of apartheid.
49. I know this is an opinion piece....
William ,   Israel   (05.14.14)
but atleast try to stick to the facts. He calls the "Apartheid 66 years old" referring to the birth of Israel but makes accusations that are squarely focused on the violent population next door since 1967. Israel does NOT control Israeli Arab freedom of movement, education, or their development. Infact, Israel funds the religious and education ministries of Arabs which THEY themselves decide what to do with. Arabs determine their own religious civilian policies like marriage, death, etc. and they have majority say over their educational curriculum. Arabs sit along side Jews on the bus, on the beach, in cafes, in chairs at universities, in the medical clinics waiting for a doctor, and in govt. Had Black South Africans had the same rights and opporunities under the White rule there, it wouldn't be called "apartheid" either. Infact, the biggest form of apartheid - where a minority wants to rule the majority, usually by coercion and force, look no further than nearby Arab countries AND the attempts by Israeli Arabs today. If you want to speak about Pallys in WB and Gaza, that too isn't Apartheid as Israeli presence is due to a terror war Arabs STARTED 94 years ago and continues unabated today. Israel's just following her moral and legal right to protect herself. As an Arab, knowing the narrative they make themselves believe, I'm not surprised at this article from Khaled Titi.
50. #45
Harold ,   USA   (05.14.14)
If what you are stating is true 'RE-ESTABLISHED IN 1948" then why more 6 million Jews were not in Palestine and that would have saved them from the NAZIS. I never read the word Israel mentioned in any book I have touched. Was Israel a member of the UN before 1948. Read more to WISE-UP Sarah B.
51. #46
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (05.14.14)
How could anyone not understand something that is so simple? "A" from Belgium seems to understand you just fine. The terms bumpkin and twit is proof you are understood.
52. Those suggesting titi to go in another country should
Why!   (05.14.14)
remember that in 1900 only 5% were jews in what you call today israel. The remaining 95% were palestinians. So go back to your countries.
53. #41, Harold, you are embarassingly ignorant
Jake   (05.14.14)
You really believe this lie that "Jews were living happily in Arab states for 1400 years". First of all, there were no "Arab states" in the region until about 25 years before the establishment of Israel, or even less. Arabs themselves have not controlled the region for some 1000 years. Second of all, the hundreds of Jewish victims of bloody Arab pogroms in Baghdad in 1941 are just one example of Arab treatment of Jews in the region before 1948.
54. 66 years of Arab League apartheid
Ian ,   Newcastle upon Tyne   (05.14.14)
When I saw the title of this piece I naturally thought that it must refer to the apartheid imposed by the Arab League after its illegal 1948 invasion of Mandate Palestine.Refusal of civil rights,naturalisation rights and political rights,exclusion from employment and education opportunities,separation from the rest of the people by being forced to live in camps....all these imposed on the Arabs whom the Arab League displaced from their homes in the course of the illegal invasion AND their descendants to the nth generation to this very day . If that isn't apartheid,I don't know what is....but not a word here.Instead,just a load of invective blaming Jewish Israelis for a state of exclusion encouraged by Arab MKs. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
55. Lynx #4, demonstrating your ignorance once again
Jake   (05.14.14)
There isn't rail service at the moment in the Galilee region. Not in Arab Nazareth, nor in the large Jewish towns of Safed and Tiberias. If ya don't like the Israeli rail service, you don't have to visit Israel. You can always visit your ancestral homeland in the Arabian Peninsula, where Arab terrorists blew up the Hejaz Railway almost 100 years ago.
56. #41, Harold, you are embarassingly ignorant
Jake   (05.14.14)
You really believe this lie that "Jews were living happily in Arab states for 1400 years". First of all, there were no "Arab states" in the region until about 25 years before the establishment of Israel, or even less. Arabs themselves have not controlled the region for some 1000 years. Second of all, the hundreds of Jewish victims of bloody Arab pogroms in Baghdad in 1941 are just one example of Arab treatment of Jews in the region before 1948.
57. #46, what "occupied lands"?
Jake   (05.14.14)
No university in Israel was built on "palestinian occupied lands". Only one university, Tel Aviv University is built on land that was once part of an Arab village. And this happens to be the one unviversity where there are pro-"Nakba Day" rallies every year and Leftist and palestinian propaganda reigns supreme.
58. Those suggesting titi to go in another country should
Why!   (05.14.14)
remember that in 1900 only 5% were jews in what you call today israel. The remaining 95% were palestinians. So go back to your countries.
59. The author is showing lack of knowledge..stupidity
Beary White ,   Norway   (05.14.14)
I can give him all the names of apartheid states, every fu..ing islamic country are apartheid states`!! The author wants to flourish by writing stuff which will be loooved by western leftist, even they know it is complete liar and written by a member of the evil islamic-cult. Anybody who wants to check-out how to live in an apartheid state, then settle in any islamic country, and you will suffer like hell when it is discovered you are not a believer of halla... and his so called tehporp
60. #42 BELGIUMMMMMMMMMMMM
Harold ,   USA   (05.15.14)
Why you say bad words when people say the truth. Are you an abnormal creature. Try to educate yourself.
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