Amnesty Exposes…Some in Washington Cover-up

Amnesty Exposes…Some in Washington Cover-up

International and Arab News

Israel is an apartheid state. That is the conclusion Amnesty International reached based on irrefutable facts, and no Israeli government has a reasonable argument against Amnesty’s categorization.

What Israel is doing in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, and even within its state, which is home to two million Arabs, removes much of the burden off of “untamed” international institutions. They don’t have to work very hard to prove the racism of the state and political system. There is no equality within Israel, a fact the state recognizes. The millions it occupies by force of arms have no rights; Israel sees them as mere de facto residents who can suffice with standing on the edge between life and death forever, and it is working to ensure they live under this state of affairs eternally.

Two equally dangerous matters are remarkable. The first is that the Israelis’ reaction to independent international bodies pointing out its continuous violations of Palestinian human rights never changes. Indeed, they are no longer mere violations; they have become a deliberate and long-term policy of the Jewish state and its political system.

The headline and details of Israel’s automatic reaction are to say that any