Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The apartheid myth [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)because Attila the Hun used elephants and, since Sadaam Hussein never used elephants, his aggression in the '90s doesn't count as an invasion.
Both sides in that awful conflict share responsibility. This OP,however, misuses the word "myth". It is a debate, for which both sides have reasons for applying or criticizing the term "apartheid".
The ID system, Israeli settlements, separate roads for Israeli and Palestinian citizens around many of these settlements, military checkpoints, marriage law, the West Bank barrier, use of Palestinians as cheaper labor, Palestinian West Bank exclaves, inequities in infrastructure, legal rights, and access to land and resources between Palestinians and Israeli residents in the Israeli-occupied territories are all examples of the Israelis systematically controlling another race over their own.
According to the UN, acts of apartheid are those "committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them." - International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1973 and ratified by most United Nations member states (Israel and the United States are exceptions)
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