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Eugene

(62,657 posts)
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 05:27 PM Sep 2023

Former Mossad chief Pardo says Israel enforcing 'apartheid' system in West Bank

Source: Times of Israel and AP

Former Mossad chief Pardo says Israel enforcing ‘apartheid’ system in West Bank

Ex-spymaster, now an outspoken critic of his former boss PM Netanyahu, warns Israel faces existential danger if it doesn’t decide borders with Palestinians

By AP and TOI STAFF
Today, 5:33 pm Updated at 7:15 pm

A former head of the Mossad intelligence agency told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Israel is enforcing an “apartheid” system in the West Bank, joining a tiny but growing list of retired officials to endorse an idea that remains largely on the fringes of Israeli discourse and international diplomacy.

Tamir Pardo becomes the latest former senior official to compare Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank to apartheid, a reference to the system of racial separation in South Africa that ended in 1994.

Leading rights groups in Israel and abroad and Palestinians have accused Israel and its 56-year military rule of the West Bank of morphing into an apartheid system that they say gives Palestinians second-class status and is designed to maintain Jewish hegemony from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

A handful of former Israeli leaders, diplomats and security officials have warned that Israel risks becoming an apartheid state, but Pardo’s language was even more blunt.

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Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-mossad-chief-pardo-says-israel-enforcing-apartheid-system-in-west-bank/

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Former Mossad chief Pardo says Israel enforcing 'apartheid' system in West Bank (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2023 OP
What he is suggesting violates international law. Mosby Sep 2023 #1
Abbas sabbat hunter Sep 2023 #4
He's 87 I think. Mosby Sep 2023 #5
I already posted this Eugene Israeli Sep 2023 #2
Of course Bibi sabbat hunter Sep 2023 #3

Mosby

(17,472 posts)
1. What he is suggesting violates international law.
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 07:56 PM
Sep 2023

Not to mention the Arab world would completely lose their shit if Israel unilaterally created a western border. That border would of course include all the major settlement blocks. Even if that somehow happens, Israel would still have to police the West Bank to prevent terrorist groups from taking over, so Israel would still be doing the same thing they are now, providing security in the absence of a legitimate elected government in "Palestine".

sabbat hunter

(6,893 posts)
4. Abbas
Sun Sep 10, 2023, 07:23 PM
Sep 2023

is another one that needs to go. He is corrupt to the bone. He has stolen, like Arafat before him, untold amounts of money. He lives the good life, while people in PA controlled areas suffer.

Mosby

(17,472 posts)
5. He's 87 I think.
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 12:49 PM
Sep 2023

The most we can hope for is that he appoints a successor that is acceptable to Fatah and enough of the other clans to avoid a civil war when he dies.


Israeli

(4,300 posts)
2. I already posted this Eugene
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 03:55 AM
Sep 2023

here : https://www.democraticunderground.com/1134137948

Tamir Pardo is not a nobody he is listened to here , he is also not the only one
speaking out and he wont be the last .

Bibi is already attacking him for his comments on 'apartheid' but so far its only in
the Hebrew press and on the TV channels this morning .

sabbat hunter

(6,893 posts)
3. Of course Bibi
Sun Sep 10, 2023, 12:45 PM
Sep 2023

is attacking him. Even without the apartheid remark, Bibi would be attacking Pardo. Bibi's ultra nationalist allies want a Jewish only state from the river to the sea. ANYTHING that is said against that, Bibi will attack.

Bibi and his ultra nationalist allies need to go. How Israel can get rid of them I have no idea. The right wing in Israel just seems to be growing with each election.

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