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Here are 10 of them, including four men who served as prime minister of Israel:<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael \u2026 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.\u201d –\u00a0a quote\u00a0attributed to former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion<\/a>\u00a0by Israeli journalist Hirsh Goodman, after the Six-Day War in 1967.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible to contain over the long term, if we don\u2019t want to get to apartheid, a million and a half [more] Arabs inside a Jewish state\u201d –\u00a0former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during a\u00a0TV interview in 1976<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n “If this bloc of millions of \u00adPalestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.” –\u00a0remarks at the\u00a0Herzliya security conference in 2010<\/a>\u00a0from former Prime Minister Ehud Barak.<\/em><\/p>\n “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.\u201d –\u00a0former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an interview with the\u00a0Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2010<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories\u201d –\u00a0op-ed for the\u00a0Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2002<\/a>\u00a0from former Israeli Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat acts like apartheid, is run like apartheid and harasses like apartheid, is not a duck \u2014 it is apartheid\u201d –\u00a0op-ed from former Israeli Environment Minister Yossi Sarid for the\u00a0Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2008<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe state of Israel practices its own, quite violent, form of apartheid with the native Palestinian population.\u201d –\u00a0an op-ed by former Israeli Education Minister Shulamit Aloni for the\u00a0Israeli news website Ynet in 2006<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIn the situation that exists today, until a Palestinian state is created, we are actually one state. This joint state \u2026 is an apartheid state.\u201d –\u00a0remarks by former Israeli Ambassador to South Africa Alon liel to a\u00a0Jerusalem conference in 2013<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe Supreme Court could have taken a braver decision and not relegated us to the level of an apartheid state.\u201d –\u00a0Zehava Galon, former chair of the Meretz party, in an interview with the\u00a0Jerusalem Post in 2006<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOn the Palestinian matter, [Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s] policies are leading to either a binational state or an apartheid state.\u201d –\u00a0Meir Dagan, a former head of the Mossad spy agency, in a TV interview with\u00a0Channel 2 in 2015<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nYITZHAK RABIN<\/h4>\n
EHUD BARAK<\/h4>\n
EHUD OLMERT<\/h4>\n
MICHAEL BEN-YAIR<\/h4>\n
YOSSI SARID<\/h4>\n
SHULAMIT ALONI<\/h4>\n
ALON LIEL<\/h4>\n
ZEHAVA GALON<\/h4>\n
MEIR DAGAN<\/h4>\n
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