Israel has moved to the right, but it is not an apartheid state
My experience of apartheid in South Africa leads me to think a survey of Israeli attitudes towards Arabs has been spun too far
That Israel's Jewish public has moved sharply to the right in recent years is well known. There's a rightwing government to prove it – and so beyond challenge is Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and so confident about his hold on power, that he has called early elections for January. Indeed the government will shift even further to the right with this week's dramatic announcement that Netanyahu's Likud party will join forces for the elections with the foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home).
Lieberman, who speaks for many of the Russian immigrants who form about 20% of the population, stands well to the right of even the rightwing Likud, so Netanyahu could run into problems with some of his own members in addition to their resentment at being pushed down the list for parliamentary seats. If the link endures greater curtailment of civil liberties can be expected, harsher attitudes towards Israeli Arabs who also form about 20% of the population, and less influence for Jewish religious parties.
Even with all this, the extent of the hostility expressed by Israeli Jews towards the country's Arab citizens, reported in an opinion survey this week, still comes as a shock: among much else, 42% said they don't want their children in the same school class with Arab children and 42% don't want to live in the same building with Arabs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/26/israel-arabs-not-apartheid?newsfeed=true
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while there are discriminatory practices and laws they are applied equally to all Israeli citizens 
Like the blood libel about Israelis just killing Gazans, this is yet another demonizing narrative.
You want apartheid vs. Palestinians, look no further up north than Lebanon.
Funny you deny it happening there, where Palestinians cannot own land, cannot vote, and cannot be in numerous professions.
and Syria is in chaos at the moment, but thanks for reiterating the complaint that those nasty Arabs won't solve Israels Palestinian problem for it 
...isn't the least bit careful, and Hamas has zero to do with it due to their strategy of victimizing their citizens. Even Goldstone eventually admitted intentionality to do harm to Palestinians was a bullshit charge.
And really, if it's not apartheid against Palestinians in Lebanon, Jordan, or Syria then what makes you think Israel is any worse than those countries - earning the dreaded apartheid label?
That's right, they're not worse so if it's not apartheid anywhere else in the mideast, it isn't in Israel either. But let's see you try to argue what Israel does is definitely apartheid in comparison to neighboring Arab states.
Go for it!
