South Africa’s anti-black apartheid lasted 46 years. Jewish Israel’s anti-Gentile apartheid is at 72, and counting...
By Nathan Thrall: Last April, Haaretz ran a statement warning the Israeli government against formally annexing its settlements in the Jew occupied West Bank. Opinion polls showed that the public didn’t care much about the issue, but political elites were debating it fiercely. Both proponents and opponents of annexation claimed that the future of Jewish Israel and Zionism was at stake. The statement argued that ‘annexation would mean a fatal blow to the possibility of peace and would be the establishment of an apartheid state.’ It was signed by 56 former members of the Knesset, among them former ministers of the interior, foreign affairs, finance and more than a dozen other departments, as well as former ambassadors, generals in the Jewish Israel Death Force, chairs of political parties, a head of the semi-governmental Jewish Agency for Jewish Israel, a former speaker of the Knesset, and a winner of the Israel Prize.






