Many who are against Israel often throw out the charge that Israel is an apartheid state that persecutes Arabs/Palestinians. If that is true, how can Rana Raslan, an Arab, be elected as Miss Israel? Or how can Walid Badir, an Arab, become captain of the HaPoel Tel Aviv football team? Then there is Salim Jourbran who is an Israeli Supreme Court Justice (who also just happens to be Arab). Arabs and Jews shop side by side in many locations across Israel, swim in the Dead Sea together, and do many other day to day activities in peace. You can see pictures of those mentioned in this paragraph at Revive Israel’s May 15th newsletter: Webmanager [webmanager@reviveisrael.org]
Muslims are permitted free access to the Temple Mount to worship and pray in their holy places. Were Jews allowed unlimited access to the Western Wall to pray at the site closest to their holiest site between 1948 and 1967 when the Old City was under Jordanian control? NO!
When the Palestinian Authority declares that any Arab who sells land to a Jew should be put to death—that sounds like apartheid to me. Or when Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, declared in 2010 to Egyptian media that “I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land”, that sounds like apartheid to me.
Beware of the bias against Israel that is endemic in most media sources in the West or from Europe.
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