User:Ykantor/Sandbox/Israel- not an Apartheid state

=Israel- longest military occupation=

"If we consider the postwar legal regime that established the international laws that regulate and administer occupation, Kashmir is the first site of contemporary military occupation, yet its history remains comparatively less known than that of Palestine or Iraq, even though the number of Indian troops posted in Kashmir approaches 700,000 more than twice the US. forces in Iraq at the height of the military occupation there." Visweswaran2013p7

"over the years, in spite of a harsh Indian military occupation of the Kashmir valley..."

"Guantanamo Bay has been under United States occupation for over a century". Butler2007p82

" On 28 October 1991 both the Senate and the House of Representatives legislated perhaps the most important legal pronouncement on Tibet. The Foreign Relations Authorization Act, fiscal year 1992 and 1993 (Public Law 102-138 (H..1415) declared Tibet, including those areas: incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai, is an occupied country under the established principles of international law; (2) Tibets true representatives are the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile as recognized by the Tibetan people, and finally calls for Tibetan peoples right to self-determination " Norbu2012p275

=Israel- not an apartheid state=

Is Israel an apartheid state? Answers from someone who’d know In South Africa, Benjamin Pogrund was jailed for opposing the regime. Now, in Israel, he abhors the occupation but insists there’s no comparison]

Israel has moved to the right, but it is not an apartheid state, by Benjamin Pogrund

An Israeli and a Palestinian scathed by South Africa apartheid rhetoric, Despite their limited knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, South Africans have many prejudices that are being fueled by anti-Israel groups, By Benjamin Pogrund and Bassem Eid

Wiki definition of the crime of apartheid the term 'the crime of apartheid', which shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practiced in southern Africa,

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