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| United Nations rights office accuses Israel of West Bank ‘apartheid’ |
| 2026-01-10 |
Utter nonsense. The Israelis in the West Bank are under Israeli rule. The Palestinians in the West Bank are under the rule of the Palestinian Authority, a very different thing. But to call that apartheid is like claiming that America has Mexico under apartheid because the Mexicans elect their own government in Mexico City. Honestly, what ever happened to all the evil masterminds that we’re stuck with these idiots! [IsraelTimes] Report says Israeli settlers and Palestinians residing in territory are treated ‘under two distinct bodies of law and policies,’ resulting in unequal practicesThe United Nations on Wednesday said decades of discrimination and segregation of Palestinians by Israel in the West Bank were intensifying, and called on the country to end its “apartheid system.” In a new report, the UN rights office said the “systematic discrimination” against Palestinians had “drastically deteriorated” in recent years. “There is a systematic asphyxiation of the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank,” UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement. “Whether accessing water, school, rushing to hospital, visiting family or friends, or harvesting olives –- every aspect of life for Palestinians in the West Bank is controlled and curtailed by Israel’s discriminatory laws, policies and practices,” he alleged. “This is a particularly severe form of racial discrimination and segregation, that resembles the kind of apartheid system we have seen before.” A number of independent experts affiliated with the UN have described the situation in the Palestinian territories as an “apartheid,” but this marks the first time a UN rights chief has applied the term. Israel’s mission to the United Nations dismissed the report as “absurd and distorted accusations of racial discrimination.” In said the report “completely ignores fundamental facts that lie at the basis of the conflict, and that inform the actions and policies of the State of Israel, mainly the grave security threats that Israel faces” and well as that the PA continues “to encourage violence” by paying stipends to terrorist who attack Israelis or their families. It said the UN human rights office has an “inherently political driven fixation… on vilifying Israel” and questioned if the office had “demonstrated comparable attention through unmandated thematic reporting on situations such as Iran, Syria, Yemen or Sudan.” Israel rejects any allegation of apartheid, saying its own Arab citizens enjoy equal rights. Israel also notes that it granted limited autonomy to the Palestinian Authority at the height of the peace process in the 1990s, giving it control over areas of the West Bank where the majority of Palestinians in the territory live. |
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