Si Goldstone akhirnya sadar jg, setelah dia melakukan ketololan sebelumnya.
>________________________________ >From: Sunny <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 4:55 AM >Subject: [proletar] The Palestinians and the Myth of Israeli Apartheid > > > >http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/commentary/the-palestinians-and-the-myth-of-israeli-apartheid/475579 >The Palestinians and the Myth of Israeli Apartheid >Richard J. Goldstone | November 02, 2011 > >Palestinian school girls walk past a graffiti on a wall depicting UN >humanitarian aid supplies, in Gaza City, Oct. 31, 2011. Palestine became a >full member of the U.N. cultural and educational agency Monday, in a highly >divisive move that the United States and other opponents say could harm >renewed Mideast peace efforts. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) >he Palestinian Authority’s request for full United Nations membership has put >hope for any two-state solution under increasing pressure. The need for >reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians has never been greater, so it >is important to separate legitimate criticism of Israel from assaults that aim >to isolate, demonize and delegitimize it. > >One particularly pernicious and enduring canard that is surfacing again is >that Israel pursues “apartheid” policies. In Cape Town starting on Saturday, a >London-based nongovernmental organization called the Russell Tribunal on >Palestine will hold a “hearing” on whether Israel is guilty of the crime of >apartheid. It is not a “tribunal.” The “evidence” is going to be one-sided and >the members of the “jury” are critics whose harsh views of Israel are >well-known. > >While “apartheid” can have broader meaning, its use is meant to evoke the >situation in pre-1994 South Africa. It is an unfair and inaccurate slander >against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations. > >I know all too well the cruelty of South Africa’s abhorrent apartheid system, >under which human beings characterized as black had no rights to vote, hold >political office, use “white” toilets or beaches, marry whites, live in >whites-only areas or even be there without a “pass.” Blacks critically injured >in car accidents were left to bleed to death if there was no “black” ambulance >to rush them to a “black” hospital. “White” hospitals were prohibited from >saving their lives. > >In assessing the accusation that Israel pursues apartheid policies, which are >by definition about race or ethnicity, it is important first to distinguish >between the situations in Israel, where Arabs are citizens, and in West Bank >areas that remain under Israeli control in the absence of a peace agreement. > >In Israel, there is no apartheid. Nothing there comes close to the definition >of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute: “Inhumane acts ... committed in the >context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination >by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with >the intention of maintaining that regime. > >Israeli Arabs — 20 percent of Israel’s population — vote, have political >parties and representatives in the Knesset and occupy positions of acclaim, >including on its Supreme Court. Arab patients lie alongside Jewish patients in >Israeli hospitals, receiving identical treatment. > >To be sure, there is more de facto separation between Jewish and Arab >populations than Israelis should accept. Much of it is chosen by the >communities themselves. Some results from discrimination. But it is not >apartheid, which consciously enshrines separation as an ideal. In Israel, >equal rights are the law, the aspiration and the ideal; inequities are often >successfully challenged in court. > >The situation in the West Bank is more complex. But here, too, there is no >intent to maintain “an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and >domination by one racial group.” This is a critical distinction, even if >Israel acts oppressively toward Palestinians there. South Africa’s enforced >racial separation was intended to permanently benefit the white minority, to >the detriment of other races. By contrast, Israel has agreed in concept to the >existence of a Palestinian state in Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, and >it is calling for the Palestinians to negotiate the parameters. > >But until there is a two-state peace, or at least as long as Israel’s citizens >remain under threat of attacks from the West Bank and Gaza, Israel will see >roadblocks and similar measures as necessary for self-defense, even as >Palestinians feel oppressed. As things stand, attacks from one side are met by >counterattacks from the other. And the disputes, claims and counterclaims are >hardened when the analogy of “apartheid” is invoked. > >Those seeking to promote the myth of Israeli apartheid often point to clashes >between heavily armed Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing Palestinians in the >West Bank, or the building of what they call an “apartheid wall” and disparate >treatment on West Bank roads. While such images may appear to invite a >superficial comparison, it is disingenuous to use them to distort the reality. >The security barrier was built to stop unrelenting terrorist attacks; while it >has inflicted great hardship in places, the Israeli Supreme Court has ordered >the state in many cases to reroute it to minimize unreasonable hardship. Road >restrictions get more intrusive after violent attacks and are ameliorated when >the threat is reduced. > >Of course, the Palestinian people have national aspirations and human rights >that all must respect. But those who conflate the situations in Israel and the >West Bank and liken both to the old South Africa do a disservice to all who >hope for justice and peace. > >Jewish-Arab relations in Israel and the West Bank cannot be simplified to a >narrative of Jewish discrimination. There is hostility and suspicion on both >sides. > >The mutual recognition and protection of the human dignity of all people is >indispensable to bringing an end to hatred and anger. The charge that Israel >is an apartheid state is a false and malicious one that precludes, rather than >promotes, peace and harmony. > >The New York Times > >Richard J. Goldstone, a former justice of the South African Constitutional >Court, led the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of >2008- > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
