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      A view over the village of Hawara, including a line of burned vehicles, after settlers riot and set houses and cars on fire in the village of Hawara

      'Watering Down' the Reality of Life Under Israeli Apartheid Is a Crime

      Ahistorical and impractical because half-truths, or watered-down truths, never lead to justice and never affect a lasting change.

      Ramzy Baroud
      Feb 27, 2023

      On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an earlier draft resolution which would have demanded that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.”

      The intrigues that led to the scrapping of what was meant to be a binding resolution will be the subject of a future article. For now, however, I would like to reflect on the fact that the so-called international community’s relationship with the Palestinian struggle has always attempted to ‘water down’ a horrific reality.

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      A Palestinian boy walks near a burned car

      Israeli Rights Group Condemns Settler 'Pogrom' Against Palestinians in West Bank

      "This isn't 'loss of control,'" said B'Tselem. "This is exactly what Israeli control looks like. The settlers carry out the attack, the military secures it, the politicians back it."

      Jake Johnson
      Feb 27, 2023

      Israeli settlers tore through the occupied West Bank on Sunday, violently attacking Palestinians and setting fire to their cars, houses, and businesses in what one rights group called a "pogrom" sanctioned by the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

      The settlers, who killed at least one Palestinian and injured hundreds more, launched their assault after a suspected Palestinian gunman fatally shot two Israeli settlers while they were driving in the West Bank.

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      ​People gather in front of Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on February 20, 2023 to protest a proposed overhaul of the judicial system.

      Can an Apartheid State Have a 'Crisis of Democracy'?

      Sure, there is democracy in Israel—but it is more similar to the one that existed among whites in apartheid South Africa than it is to the democracy that currently exists in the United Kingdom or France.

      Neve Gordon
      Feb 23, 2023

      Since the start of the new year, reading about Israel in the Hebrew-language press has been an unnerving experience.

      One article described a maternity ward in which a Palestinian woman from Nazareth was persuaded to move rooms after a Jewish woman complained about sharing the same space with a non-Jew.

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