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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">‘Israel’ is an apartheid regime, former AG of ‘Israel’ says</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">February 15, 2022<br></div>
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<p>Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Former Attorney General of ‘Israel’,
Michael Benyair, said he agrees with Amnesty International’s
recently-issued report on Israeli apartheid against Palestinians,
concluding that “my country is now an apartheid regime.”</p>
<p>Writing in The Journal, the former acting judge in Israeli Supreme
Court referred to the public debate as to whether the actions the
Israeli occupation government is enacting in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories can be classified as apartheid under international law.</p>
<p>He also pointed out to <a href="https://qudsnen.co/amnesty-israel-imposing-apartheid-on-palestinians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amnesty International’s new report that classed ‘Israel’ as an apartheid</a>, becoming the latest NGO to call it as apartheid and ‘a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity’.</p>
<p>Benyair wrote, “I have spent my career analysing Israel’s most
pressing legal questions. Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and
East Jerusalem was a fundamental dilemma during my tenure and beyond.”</p>
<p>“Israel’s ongoing domination over these territories is a gross injustice that must be urgently rectified,” Benyair said.</p>
<p>“I must also conclude that my country has sunk to such political and
moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime. It is time for the
international community to recognise this reality as well.”</p>
<p>Since 1967, Benyaid noted, Israeli occupation authorities have
“justified the occupation by claiming that it is temporary until a
peaceful solution can be found between Israelis and Palestinians.”</p>
<p>“However, five decades have now passed since these territories were
conquered and Israel shows no interest in rescinding this control.”</p>
<p>“It is impossible to conclude otherwise: the occupation is a
permanent reality. This is a one state reality, with two different
peoples living with unequal rights.”</p>
<p>Violating international law, the former AG said, ‘Israel’ has
transferred more than 650,000 of its Jewish citizens to live in
settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.</p>
<p>“These settlements are established in areas that surround Palestinian
villages, intentionally fragmenting Palestinian communities from each
other, to ultimately prevent the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian
state. In East Jerusalem, discriminatory property laws are forcing
Palestinians out of their homes in a state-backed policy of Judaising
the city,” he said.</p>
<p>“In Area C of the West Bank, discriminatory planning laws are being
used to drive Palestinian communities from their land. These communities
face a deluge of settler violence from unauthorised outposts (illegal
even under Israeli law), the perpetrators of which face little to no
consequences.”</p>
<p>“Any attempts to resist apartheid are heavily surveilled or
criminalised, exemplified by the spurious designation of Palestinian
civil society groups as terrorists by the Israeli Ministry of Defence.”</p>
<p>Successive Israeli governments including the recent coalition
government which billed itself as a shift away from Netanyahu’s
intransigence has consistently and publicly affirmed that they have no
intention of establishing a Palestinian state, Benyair stated.</p>
<p>However, Benyair added, “much of the discussion in the international
community operates as if Israel’s behaviour in the occupied territories
can be distinguished from the liberal democracy that exists within the
Green Line. This is a mistake.”</p>
<p>“You simply cannot be a liberal democracy if you operate apartheid
over another people. It is a contradiction in terms because Israel’s
entire society is complicit in this unjust reality.”</p>
<p>“It is the Israeli ministerial cabinet for settlements that approves every illegal settlement in the occupied territories.”</p>
<p>Benyair said it was him, in his role as the Attorney General “who
approved the expropriation of private Palestinian land in order to build
infrastructure such as roads that have entrenched settlement
expansion.”</p>
<p>Benyair added that it is the Israeli courts that “uphold
discriminatory laws geared to expel Palestinians from their homes in
East Jerusalem and their land in the West Bank. Its healthcare providers
operate over the Green Line. And Israeli citizens ultimately pay taxes
that subsidise the government’s entrenchment of control and domination
in these territories.”</p>
<p>Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, it is Israel that
is permanently depriving millions of Palestinians of their civil and
political rights, Benyair stressed.</p>
<p>“This is Israeli apartheid,” he wrote.</p>
<p>Benyair said that the delay by the international community in taking
“meaningful steps to hold Israel accountable for the apartheid regime it
is perpetuating is unacceptable.”</p>
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