Like this:
Veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle said last night that the restrictions endured by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories was in some respects worse than that imposed on the black majority under white rule in South Africa.
Members of a 23-strong human-rights team of prominent South Africans cited the impact of the Israeli military's separation barrier, checkpoints, the permit system for Palestinian travel, and the extent to which Palestinians are barred from using roads in the West Bank. ...
..."Even with the system of permits, even with the limits of movement to South Africa, we never had as much restriction on movement as I see for the people here," said an ANC parliamentarian, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge of the West Bank. "There are areas in which people would live their whole lifetime without visiting because it's impossible."
Mrs Madlala-Routledge, a former deputy health minister in President Thabo Mbeki's government, added: "While I want to be careful not to characterise everything that I see here as apartheid, I just do find comparisons in a number of places. I also find differences."...
...Fatima Hassan, a leading South African human rights lawyer, said: "The issue of separate roads...
One prominent member of the delegation, who declined to be named, said South Africa had been "much poorer" both during and after apartheid than the Palestinian territories. But he added: "The daily indignity to which the Palestinian population is subjected far outstrips the apartheid regime. And the effectiveness with which the bureaucracy implements the repressive measures far exceed that of the apartheid regime."...
The delegation's final formal statement made no mention of comparisons with apartheid and Judge [Dennis] Davis [a high court judge and one of the South African delegation's several Jewish members] said he thought the use of the term in the Middle East context was "very unhelpful".
He added: "The level of social control I've seen here, separate roads, different number plates [between Palestinian and Israeli cars] may well be more cynically pernicious than what we have ever had...
Well, the proof is always in the pudding.
Here are some photographs I clicked yesterday morning traveling from Shiloh to Jerusalem. That red van came from north of us and drove all the way to Hizma, at least 50 kilomters on the same road as "Jewish" cars, not to mention to bad driving habits we observed of wild passing:
This "apartheid" business is BS.
And very good propaganda.
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Did you ever see the sign, "No Jews allowed on this road after dark?"
Its on the road going from Har Choma to Nokdim...
THAT'S an Apartheid Road!
A picture is worth 1000 words
Mr. Medad, it's sad how blind you are to the horror that's happening under your eyes.
You KNOW that it's about permits and passports (persons), not about license plates (cars).
Palestinians are denied passage through checkpoints all the time, Israelis are not. Palestinians can move around in the Westbank as long as they have the right permit (handed out by Israel, which is rarely the case) to enter the area.
No Martijn, it's all about the use of the term "apartheid". And, no terror, no road harassment.
the sign was there a few months before our road opened full time, it was open only part time and not patrolled nor were the entrances guarded. thank g-d those days are over!
So you recognize there is road harassment? Well, that's something else then what you wanted to propagate in your original post.
And how about 'no road harassment, no terror' or 'no occupation, no terror' or 'no occupation, no resistance'?
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