The myth of an Israeli Appartheid

Israel is a country that DOES NOT practice apartheid. This is completely FALSE.

Sometime a picture is worth a thousands words: is this Apartheid?

The Israeli Arab population (20% of the population) has more civil rights than most neighboring Arab populations (with the possible exception of Lebanon).

The Israeli Arabs can practice all the jobs they want, they are recognized at the highest echelon of the administration (including the Supreme Court), enjoy full freedom of worship and movement, can vote and elect their representative the Knesset. These are facts that can be easily checked. 

Israeli Arabs can practice all the jobs they want

The net result is that  the Israeli society is enabling the emancipation and social elevation of many israeli arab as the case of this israeli arab accessing a top job at Apple illustrate:

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/technology/40464-140816-arab-israeli-high-tech-ace-awarded-apple-top-job

Of course Israel is not treating the same way the Palestinian people who are NOT citizens of Israel with whom Israel is in a state of permanent war. Measure such as the wall are defensive: when the erected the French Maginot line it was not, it seems, to discriminate against the Germans but to defend themselves. Its the same here.

Finally two questions are worth asking to those speaking of an Israeli apartheid:

1) Do Jews have the right to exist in the Palestinian territories, for example on the Gaza Strip. No. I recently captured this discussion on facebook that brilliantly summarizes the issue:

-" 000% Jews in Gaza.... Explain that"

- "What's there to explain? I wouldn't want to live in Gaza either."

- "Jews can't live there, not even with a jewish name. They will just get stoned and shoot on the streets. That's why we don´t live there. We shoot warning shoots they do not."

Although  the picture of the left should say "I'm an Israeli and 1,5 Million Arabs live in my state" it does illustrate that segregation is occurring on the palestinian side.

2) Do they know about what was the status of Jews under the so-called tolerance scheme (dimmi) under the Caliphate in the nineteenth century?  Then we will speak of Apartheid...