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In reply to the discussion: Israeli police beat mourners at journalist's funeral [View all]I lived and worked in a "Front Line State" in Africa bordering on South Africa during the apartheid era. I then traveled to Israel and the Occupied Territories after that. The main difference in the two systems was that white South Africans tended to be paternalistic towards Africans. They would tell me how Africans "are like children, they don't want to work or organize a government, etc." Demeaning and racist but at the same time almost every white South African had an African family of servants living on their property and maintained that if the other Blacks were like "their" Blacks things would be ok.
Israelis on the other hand frequently told me how much the hated "the Arabs", wanted them to go back to another Arab country, that they were animals (cockroaches one person told me), etc. I personally observed armed Israeli settlers push old Palestinian men off a sidewalk, bully their way everywhere, saw police rudely questioning Arabs, demanding documents and just generally fucking with them to an extent I never witnessed in South Africa. And by the way South African police were no sweethearts.
So yeah I do know what apartheid is and it is alive and well in Israel.