Israel is an occupying and apartheid state, as recognized by Israeli officials

The myth that Israel is the first democratic state in the Middle East no longer deceives anyone, and it is no longer the most law-abiding, most respectful of human rights, the principles of international humanitarian law, and the resolutions of international legitimacy. All of these empty allegations that Israel has adhered to since its establishment until now cannot be believed by anyone.

Occupying the lands of others, persecuting another people, usurping their right to freedom, independence, self-determination, and controlling all their human and natural resources cannot be consistent with the principles of democracy, freedom, progress, and human civilization. In addition, the establishment of the occupying state on the ruins of another people and their lands, using violence and aggression and committing war crimes against the occupied people, cannot be consistent with the principles and charters of the United Nations.

Since the establishment of Israel, the occupying regime for many decades, it has practiced the worst types of aggression, oppression and abuse against the Palestinian people, committed unprecedented war crimes against them, and established an apartheid regime in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The fact that Israel is a state of occupation and apartheid is no longer a fact confirmed by the international community system, the United Nations bodies, its human rights organizations, the peoples of the world, its parties, organizations, and leaders alone. Rather, Israeli officials, intellectuals, and academics acknowledge the reality of the racism of the existing regime in the State of Israel, including the former president. To the “Central Israeli Intelligence Agency” (Mossad), Tamir Pardo, who said last Wednesday, September 6, 2023, in statements to the American “Associated Press” agency, that Israel is implementing a system of apartheid in the occupied West Bank.

Pardo became the latest former Israeli official to conclude that Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank amounts to apartheid, in reference to the apartheid system in South Africa that ended in 1994. He joins a growing list of retired Israeli "security officials" who confirm the practice of The occupation authorities are an apartheid regime against the Palestinians. The Israeli occupation state has established a complete system of apartheid in the Palestinian territories, including racist and discriminatory laws, and has transformed the occupied Palestinian territories into ghettos and closed prisons in which it arrests the Palestinian people and imposes severe restrictions on them that prevent them from freedom of movement and mobility, and grants the settlers the right to priority in life, rights, and movement without any conditions or conditions. No restrictions, as the extremist racist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, called for several days ago.

Hundreds of academics said that Israel's long-term occupation of Palestinian territories had resulted in an "apartheid regime," and called for equal rights for all, whether in one or two states. This came in a petition signed by about 417 academics from Israel, the United States, and other countries until Monday, the seventh of last August, under the title “The Elephant in the Room.”

Among the signatories of the petition are American academics from Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Michigan, Washington, and Princeton universities, as well as university professors from Britain and Germany. This is in addition to Israeli academics from the universities of Tel Aviv, Hebrew, Haifa, and Ben Gurion in Israel.

The petition drew attention to the direct link between “Israel’s recent attack on the judiciary and Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories where millions of Palestinians live,” especially since demonstrations and protests have been continuing for weeks against the right-wing Israeli government’s insistence on passing a set of judicial amendments that the opposition describes as “turning Israel into a dictatorship.” .

The petition also stated: “The Palestinian people lack almost all basic rights, including the right to vote and protest. They face ongoing violence.”

She added: “This year alone, Israeli forces killed more than 190 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and demolished more than 590 buildings. Settlers burn, loot and kill with impunity.”

She pointed out that "without equal rights for all, whether in one state, two states, or another political framework, there is always the risk of dictatorship." She said: “There cannot be democracy for the Jews in Israel as long as the Palestinians live under the apartheid regime,” and added that “the ultimate goal of judicial reform is to tighten restrictions on Gaza, deprive the Palestinians of equal rights outside and inside the Green Line, and annex more lands.” And the ethnic cleansing of all territories under Israeli rule.”

Israeli and international human rights organizations have said on more than one occasion in recent years that “Israel applies an apartheid system.

Since its establishment on the ruins of the Palestinian people, Israel has embodied a colonial-settler occupation regime that is unique in its kind on the global level. It usurped the land of the Palestinian people with aggression, force and violence. It displaced the Palestinian people from their land and denied the existence of this people, in violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. It established its usurping, occupying state on the land of Palestine, and established a racist regime that practices violence and tyranny against the Palestinian people, and imposes racist laws to subjugate the Palestinian people, with the world’s recognition, and even with the approval and acknowledgment of Israeli officials themselves, and the countries of the world and its free peoples who believe in democracy and human rights must move to boycott. This racist regime, and the imposition of sanctions on it, so that the occupying state and its racist settler-colonial system will fall, and so that the Palestinian people can enjoy security, peace and self-determination in a free and sovereign state on the land of their homeland.