----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:46 PM Subject: Re: Strong Words for Jeroen
> > Dan Minette wrote: > > > >Finally, the ability of the Arab citizens of Israel to live as a respected > >minority does indeed prove that Arabs and Jews can live together in a system > >where the Jews have the political power. Indeed, those Arabs are the best > >treated citizens, with the most rights in any country in the Middle East. > >That should prove that the there is no systematic mistreatment of Arabs by > >Jews when they have political power. > > > But notice that the same was true, if you replace Arabs by Blacks > and Israel by Apartheid's South Africa - and it's generally agreed that > Apartheid was immoral. > > NB: I am _not_ comparing Israel's regime to Apartheid, before anyone > calls me a racist [which unfortunately I think I might be :-/] Both statements are true, but there are still significant differences. In Israel, the Arabs have the same vote as the Jews; in South Africa, the blacks did not have the vote. In Israel, the Jews are the majority; in South Africa the whites are the minority. If South Africa was a white run country in Africa because the vast majority of the population was white, and the blacks had the same civil rights as the whites, and Apartheid was the right of return of any Africaner to South Africa, then it would not have been the moral problem it was. Dan M.
