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' #IDF is a terrorist organization'‒fmr IDF soldier #MikoPeled - #tsahal #israel #apartheid - RT - 08.02.17-7mn

' #IDF is a terrorist organization'‒fmr IDF soldier #MikoPeled - #tsahal #israel #apartheid - RT - 08.02.17-7mn

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The Israeli parliament has greenlighted the legalization of nearly 4,000 settler homes in the West Bank as it passed a controversial retroactive bill. Former IDF soldier turned activist Miko Peled joins RT America's Anya Parampil to give his take on the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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#US Admits #israel Is Building Permanent #Apartheid Regime — Weeks After Giving It $38 Billion - #zionism

#US Admits #israel Is Building Permanent #Apartheid Regime — Weeks After Giving It $38 Billion - #zionism | News in english | Scoop.it

#US Admits #israel Is Building Permanent #Apartheid Regime — Weeks After Giving It $38 Billion - #zionism

Oct. 6 2016, 3:29 p.m.

After serving as key protector of South Africa's apartheid, U.S. playing the same role for Israel.

 

n 2010, Israel’s then-defense minister, Ehud Barak, explicitly warned that Israel would become a permanent “apartheid” state if it failed to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians that creates their own sovereign nation and vests them with full political rights. “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic,” Barak said. “If this bloc of millions of ­Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.”

Honest observers on both sides of the conflict have long acknowledged that the prospects for a two-state solution are virtually non-existent: another way of saying that Israel’s status as a permanent apartheid regime is inevitable. Indeed, U.S. intelligence agencies as early as 45 years ago explicitly warned that Israeli occupation would become permanent if it did not end quickly.

All relevant evidence makes clear this is what has happened. There has been no progress toward a two-state solution for many years. The composition of Israel’s Jewish popu(...)

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#RIP #FidelCastro : The Secret History of How  #Cuba Helped End #Apartheid in #SouthAfrica #History - 20 mn

#RIP #FidelCastro : The Secret History of How  #Cuba Helped End #Apartheid in #SouthAfrica #History - 20 mn
Ajoutée le 11 déc. 2013

http://www.democracynow.org - As the world focuses on Tuesday's historic handshake between President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro, we look back at the pivotal role Cuba played in ending apartheid and why Castro was one of only five world leaders invited to speak at Nelson Mandela's memorial. In the words of Mandela, the Cuban "destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor ... [and] inspired the fighting masses of South Africa." Historian Piero Gleijeses argues that it was Cuba's victory in Angola in 1988 that forced Pretoria to set Namibia free and helped break the back of apartheid South Africa. We speak to Gleijeses about his new book, "Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991," and play archival footage of Mandela meeting Fidel Castro in Cuba.

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