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"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....If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote (or if doing so is meaningless), that will be an apartheid state."
In November 2007, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said:
"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (including for Occupied Palestinians), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished."
In December 2006, discussing his book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," Jimmy Carter called it worse than South Africa's in comments Israel Radio aired. On December 9, 2006, he told Canada's CBC:
Israel's policy of occupation and separation perpetuates "worse....apartheid than we witnessed in South Africa." He hoped his book would stimulate debate. "There's never been (any) on this issue of any significance. Israel will never have peace until they agree to" end occupation and grant Palestinians self-determination.
On November 8, 2009, Haaretz writer Yitzhak Laor headlined, "Israel's apartheid is worse than South Africa's," saying:
"The system preserving this apartheid is more ruthless as it is equipped with the lie of being 'temporary.' " A rigid legal system perpetuates it. Decades of Palestinian suffering show the challenge of achieving change. Yet international law is clear and unequivocal.
Article 7(1)(j) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court calls apartheid a crime, stating:
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