Gaza Palestinian's have been protesting each Friday @ its border fence w/ Israel since March 2018. Israeli snipers have killed hundreds & wounded thousands of unarmed protesters often indiscriminately. In the West Bank the mostly Orthodox Jewish settlers see Palestinian's as squatters confiscating their land w/impunity. The Jewish settlements then protected by the IDF. Such practices reveal Israel is an apartheid state.

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Picture of Israeli settlements built in the West Bank of Palestinian land confiscated by Jewish Israeli settlers.

Though hardly mentioned in the corporate MSM for over a year now Palestinian's have been protesting each Friday along its Gaza border fence with Israel.

What began in March 2018 was the demand to return to their ancestors homes when they were expelled in 1948 during Israel's creation.

They're also demanding an end to the 12 year old Israeli blockade of Gaza.

Thus far Israeli IDF snipers have killed hundreds and wounded many thousands of unarmed protesters.

Though their demands haven't been met these protests have highlighted the plight of the occupied Palestinian's at the hands of the Israeli's not only in Gaza but all the areas Israel confiscated after its 1967 war with Egypt, Jordan and Syria including the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights of Syria and the Egyptian Sinai-the latter ceded back to Egypt in 1982.

What is significant this brutality of occupied Palestinian's by Israel is not lost on some EU countries in Europe and in particular tiny Ireland.

In February the Irish parliament passed a bill boycotting "goods from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine". Let's remember prior to Israel confiscating lands mentioned above after the 67' war there were no Israeli settlements in those areas which are illegal under international law.

Though the Irish bill has yet to become law "ten members of the US Congress have been accused of interfering in Irish politics after lobbying the Irish government to oppose a bill which would outlaw goods from Israeli settlements warning 'the potentially severe implications were the bill to become law". [1] A lawyer connected with the Irish parliament put it, "This is a brazen effort by a major power to interfere with the democratic process in Ireland. There is no reason why our politicians should be any less outraged by this interference in our democratic process than US politicians would be if the situation were reversed."

Exactly. Look at the hue and cry of our politicos just suspecting "others" interfering in our political affairs.

Though not all others. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can be invited to speak before the US Congress, be cheered and given a standing ovation a couple of years ago, yet it's highly unlikely there's been more interference by any others more than him and the Israeli Lobby into the political affairs of the US.

Israel acts with impunity because of the political support it receives from the US Congress most of whom are bought off by the Israeli Lobby, indirectly through AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, but directly from AIPAC members. Israel receives some $3.5 billion each year authorized by Congress. It also has nuclear weapons which is hardly a secret yet Israel won't admit to.

Without the US as its primary benefactor Israel would be required under international law to cede back all the lands it confiscated after the 67' war and withdraw to the borders established by the UN in 1948.

The likelihood of that happening may be wishful thinking.

At this point let's pull no punches come right out and say it, Israel is an apartheid state. That has nothing to do with anti-Semitism, denying the Holocaust or being anti-Jewish.

Here's the reality that can't be ignored:

All the Jewish mostly Orthodox settlements built in the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights are illegal under international law.

Israel bulldozes Palestinian people's homes, destroys their olive groves, remove the people with impunity in order for mostly Orthodox Jews to build homes and settlements on the Palestinian land that was confiscated. Then Israel orders its IDF, Israeli defense Force to protect these Jewish settlements.

The Jewish settlers consider the Palestinian's as "squatters" just occupying land these settlers believe God bequeath to the Jews thousands of years ago. But the Palestinian's are indigenous to lands they have lived on and cultivated for generations spanning hundreds of years.

As to the Palestinian's living in Gaza they're essentially confined in an open air prison. Israel prevents them leaving. There's an Israeli embargo on all goods and services permitted into and out of Gaza. And periodically since 2007 Israel has invaded and bombed Gaza killing hundreds of mostly innocent people that can't escape the onslaught.

Israel has built a 22' wall around the West Bank essentially preventing Palestinian's from entering Israel. Roads have been built from the Israeli settlements into Israel proper only for Jews to travel. Palestinian's are permitted to enter Israel can only through Israeli manned checkpoints.

So it's not a stretch to view Israel as an apartheid state no better than South Africa treated its black people when the country existed under white apartheid rule.

But times are changing particularly among young Jews that no longer automatically accept Israel and its policies toward the Palestinian's as did their parents elders who had relatives in Europe who were murdered by the Nazi's during the Holocaust.

How ironic now these Orthodox Jewish settlers in the West Bank, maybe many(most?) Jews in the State of Israel and the IDF see all Palestinian's as vermin, often killed indiscriminately, no different than Hitler and his Nazi henchmen did mercilessly slaughtering Jews during the Holocaust.

[1] "US Congressmen accused of bullying Ireland over Israeli settlement goods boycott", by Claren Tierney, "Irish Central", February 25, 2019.

(Article changed on May 20, 2019 at 17:32)

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Retired. The author of "DECEIT AND EXCESS IN AMERICA, HOW THE MONEYED INTERESTS HAVE STOLEN AMERICA AND HOW WE CAN GET IT BACK", Authorhouse, 2009