Here are 10 of them, including four men who served as prime minister of Israel:
DAVID BEN-GURION
“Israel … better rid itself of the territories and their Arab population as soon as possible. If it did not, Israel would soon become an apartheid state.” – a quote attributed to former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion by Israeli journalist Hirsh Goodman, after the Six-Day War in 1967.
YITZHAK RABIN
“I don’t think it’s possible to contain over the long term, if we don’t want to get to apartheid, a million and a half [more] Arabs inside a Jewish state” – former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during a TV interview in 1976.
EHUD BARAK
“If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.” – remarks at the Herzliya security conference in 2010 from former Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
EHUD OLMERT
“If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then, as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished.” – former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2010
MICHAEL BEN-YAIR
“We established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories” – op-ed for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2002 from former Israeli Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair.
YOSSI SARID
“What acts like apartheid, is run like apartheid and harasses like apartheid, is not a duck — it is apartheid” – op-ed from former Israeli Environment Minister Yossi Sarid for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2008.
SHULAMIT ALONI
“The state of Israel practices its own, quite violent, form of apartheid with the native Palestinian population.” – an op-ed by former Israeli Education Minister Shulamit Aloni for the Israeli news website Ynet in 2006.
ALON LIEL
“In the situation that exists today, until a Palestinian state is created, we are actually one state. This joint state … is an apartheid state.” – remarks by former Israeli Ambassador to South Africa Alon liel to a Jerusalem conference in 2013.
ZEHAVA GALON
“The Supreme Court could have taken a braver decision and not relegated us to the level of an apartheid state.” – Zehava Galon, former chair of the Meretz party, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post in 2006.
MEIR DAGAN
“On the Palestinian matter, [Benjamin Netanyahu’s] policies are leading to either a binational state or an apartheid state.” – Meir Dagan, a former head of the Mossad spy agency, in a TV interview with Channel 2 in 2015.
