{"id":185030,"date":"2023-09-07T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=185030"},"modified":"2023-09-07T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:15:23","slug":"wow-israel-is-an-apartheid-state-former-mossad-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=185030","title":{"rendered":"

WOW!!! Israel is an \u2018apartheid state\u2019 \u2013 former Mossad chief<\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The country must decide on its borders or it risks destruction, Tamir Pardo warns<\/h3>\n

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The treatment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank makes Israel an apartheid state, Tamir Pardo, former head of the national intelligence agency Mossad, has claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an apartheid state here,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Pardo, who served as Mossad\u2019s chief between 2011 and 2016, said in an interview with the Associated Press, conducted in the coastal city of Herzliya and published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he stated.<\/p>\n

Apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 and 1994, in which the white minority had complete political control over the majority black population.<\/p>\n

The former Mossad chief said Israeli Jews can travel freely across the country, except for the blockaded Gaza Strip, while Palestinians require permission to enter Israel and are forced to pass through checkpoints inside the West Bank. The term apartheid is\u00a0\u201cnot extreme, it\u2019s a fact,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n

The West Bank, a landlocked territory, has been occupied by Israel since the Arab-Israeli War of 1967.<\/p>\n

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Pardo did not say whether he harbored such views on Israel\u2019s treatment of the Palestinians when he was in charge of Mossad.<\/p>\n

However, he insisted that while in office he repeatedly urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a decision on Israel\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

The former spymaster warned that the continued occupation of the West Bank creates the risk of the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state.\u00a0\u201cIsrael needs to decide what it wants. A country that has no border has no boundaries,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n

In July, a study by the Aspenai Online research group predicted that Arab residents of Israel will outnumber Jews in the coming decades, calling it a\u00a0\u201cdemographic bomb\u201d<\/em>\u00a0that is tickling.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s Likud Party has lashed out at Pardo over his interview, saying that\u00a0\u201cinstead of defending Israel and the Israeli military, Pardo slanders Israel.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The ex-Mossad chief\u00a0\u201cshould be ashamed\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of himself, the party said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s treatment of the Palestinians has been compared to apartheid on numerous occasions, including by human right groups, the UN and South Africa itself. Israeli authorities claim that its Jewish and Arab populations enjoy equal rights, while attributing the harsh security measures in the West Bank to the constant terrorist threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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