Israel doing much worse than apartheid

Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israel's 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades. It's another one of the periodic Israeli exercises in what they delicately call “mowing the lawn.” That means shooting fish in the pond, to make sure that the animals stay quiet in the cage that you've constructed for them, after which you go to a period of what's called “ceasefire”.

“In the occupied territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid,” Chomsky says. To call it apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if by 'apartheid' you mean South African-style apartheid. There's a crucial difference. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the occupied territories is totally different. They just don't want them. Israel's justice has become injustice and their judgment has become the slaughter of the innocent and the butchery of the helpless.

Ted Rudow III, MA
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Palo Alto, CA