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Little Tich
(6,171 posts)and lived under a different legal system than the local population, in this case the laws of the occupying country. Now there are 600 000 civilians living under Israeli civilian law, while the local population is living under Israeli military law.
It's interesting that you put up two examples of supposed Apartheid that would classify Israel as an Apartheid state as well if the same standards were used. As the political system in the occupied territories is even more discriminatory, it would mean a fortiori that the Apartheid is stronger in the occupied territories than either Australia or Lebanon. I don't believe that there's a system of Apartheid in Australia and Lebanon, for me that's just discrimination. I don't believe that there's Apartheid in Israel either, just discrimination.
Anyway, your link to the Herald article didn't work, but here's another description of discrimination against aboriginals in Australia:
Do we have apartheid in Australia?
Source: Creative Spirits
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It is not easy to recognise elements of apartheid in Australia. Often it takes outsiders to make the comparison.
One such outsider is South African writer Sisonke Msimang who moved to Australia after spending years writing about and commenting on human rights, race relations and government accountability in South Africa.
Since arriving she has recognised a systematic approach to ‘assimilate’ and ‘eradicate’ Australia’s Aboriginal heritage. She says the Australian government employs tactics of ‘trickery, disposition and violence’ that are ‘as ugly as you’ll find anywhere in the world’, practices which she found all too similar to those implemented during South Africa’s apartheid.
As any Aboriginal person and they will tell you that Aboriginal people are selectively targeted by police.
A Sydney Morning Herald investigation in November 2014 into police searches at train stations found that the “searches are not spread evenly across the city”.
People at Redfern, where the majority of Sydney’s Aboriginal people live, were “far more likely to be searched than those at Central or Kings Cross stations”. This was despite those searches being less likely to identify drugs. Passengers at Redfern Station were 6.5 times more likely to be searched than passengers at Central Station, the report found.
Read more: http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/do-we-have-apartheid-in-australia
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