"Israel's Apartheid Worse Than S.
Africa," The Wisdom Fund, February 23, 2004
"U.S. Supports Fatah, Hamas Wins Palestinian
Election," The Wisdom Fund, January 22, 2006
[Israel has blocked $50 million a month in customs and tax receipts
collected for the Palestinian Authority, causing a monthly deficit of $110
million.--Steven Erlanger, "Iran Pledges Financial Aid to Hamas-Led
Palestinians," New York Times, February 23, 2006]
"EU to
fill Palestinian funds gap," BBC News, February 27, 2006
Chris McGreal, "Israel's
colonisation of Palestine blocking peace, says Jimmy Carter," Guardian,
March 18, 2006
Gillian Slovo, Harold Pinter, and Stephen Fry, "In Defense
of a Play," New York Times, March 22, 2006
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel
Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," London Review of Books, March 23, 2006
Gideon Levy, "Who is a
terrorist?," Haaretz, April 16, 2006
[A former head of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad today said the
entire Palestinian cabinet could be targeted for assassination.--"Hamas
ministers warned they are Israeli 'targets'," Guardian, April 21, 2006]
VIDEO: Bathsheba Ratzkoff and Sut Jhally, "Peace,
Propaganda & The Promised Land," Google Video, April 22, 2006
[This is no time to try to rewrite boundaries in the occupied territories.
Good-faith talks between Israelis and Palestinians are the only viable path
to peace.--Jimmy Carter, "Israel's new plan: A land
grab," USA Today, May 16, 2006]
[Never in the long struggle for freedom in apartheid South Africa was there
a situation as dramatic as in Palestine today . . .
The root problem is the intensifying Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
Despite the international court of justice ruling it illegal, Israel's
390-mile wall snakes on through the West Bank, taking another 10% of the
land and providing for the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements. Nearly
50,000 Palestinians are to be left in limbo on the Israeli side of the wall;
65,000 will face a daily commute through 11 transit points.--Ronnie Kasrils
and Victoria Brittain, "Israel
should face sanctions," Guardian, May 19, 2006]
[Olmert may believe that Jews can succeed where Afrikaners failed, but
history teaches us that in the end injustice is unsustainable.--Jeff Halper,
"Olmert's (and
Elie Wiesel's) Roadmap Countdown to Apartheid," counterpunch.org, May
25, 2006]
[And even in the testimonies that did get published here, what was missing
was any acknowledgement of the long-term plan to wipe the record clean of
all troublesome U.N. resolutions, crush Palestinian national aspirations,
steal their land and water, cram them into ever smaller enclaves, ultimately
balkanize them with the Wall, which was on the drawing board many years
ago. Indeed to write about any sort of master plan was to incur further
torrents of abuse for one's supposedly "paranoid" fantasies about Israel'
bad faith, with much pious invocation of the "peace process".
But successive Israeli governments did have a long-term plan. No matter who
was in power, the roads got built, the water stolen, the olive and fruit
trees cut down (a million) the houses knocked over (12,000), the
settlements imposed (300) the shameless protestations of good faith issued
to the US press (beyond computation).--Alexander Cockburn, "Population Transfers, Land Theft and
Bankrupt Ghettos: Palestine: It's All Over," counterpunch.org, June 5,
2006]
[Such collective punishment, identified as a crime against humanity in the
Geneva Conventions, evokes the Nazis' strangulation of the Warsaw ghetto . .
. This is the price Palestinians must pay for their democratic elections in
January.--John Pilger, "In Palestine, a War on Children," ZNet, June 17, 2006]
Tanya Reinhart, "When Killings Don't
Count," counterpunch.org, June 22, 2006
Chris McGreal, "Climbdown
as Hamas agrees to Israeli state," Guardian, June 22, 2006
[Israel's current policy in the territories, Carter writes in the book's
summary, is "a system of apartheid, with two peoples occupying the same land
but completely separated from each other, with Israelis totally dominant and
suppressing violence by depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights."
. . . "I don't think Israel has any legal or moral justification for their
massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon."--Jennifer Siegel, "Carter Book Slaps Israel With 'Apartheid' Tag, Provides
Ammo to GOP," Forward, October 17, 2006]
James D. Besser, "Furor Over Carter's South Africa Analogy," Jewish Week, October
20, 2006
VIDEO: Jimmy Carter, "Palestine:
Peace Not Apartheid," democracynow.org, November 30, 2006
[ . . . why, I wonder, didn't The New York Times and the other gutless
mainstream newspapers in the United States mention Israel's cosy
relationship with that very racist apartheid regime in South Africa which
Carter is not supposed to mention in his book?Robert Fisk, "Banality and barefaced lies," Independent, December 23, 2006]
Rory McCarthy, "Occupied Gaza like apartheid South Africa, says UN report,"
Guardian, February 23, 2007
[The campaign by the advocacy group, Yesh Din, which fights for the rights
of Palestinians in the occupied territories, follows the publication on
Friday in the newspaper Haaretz of classified government data regarding the
extent of construction in officially recognized settlements that is illegal
by Israeli standards.
The violations include private and public building carried out without the
appropriate permits or outside of approved plans, as well as the
construction of whole neighborhoods on private Palestinian lands in blatant
contravention of Israeli policy and law.Isabel Kershner, "Israeli Advocacy Group Begins Campaign to Help Palestinians
Sue Over Settlements," New York Times, January 31, 2009]
Desmond Tutu, "Justice requires action to stop
subjugation of Palestinians," tampabay.com, April 30, 2012
VIDEO: John Lyons, Janine Cohen and Sylvie Le Clezio, "Stone Cold
Justice," abc.net.au, February 18, 2014