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Aug 17, 2024 • 16 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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15 Israeli (former) leaders call it Apartheid. A 🧵
For decades, Israeli political & military leaders have wondered, will Israel become an apartheid state? Then, once their tenure in office ends, and their title is former something, they find the courage to say, alas, Israel has become an apartheid state!
In 1967, the former PM David Ben-Gurion said shortly after the conquest of Gaza & the West Bank that 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.” theintercept.com/2017/03/22/top…
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In 1976, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin called the settlements a cancer when a mere 3K Israelis lived in occupied Palestine. Something had to be done “if we don’t want to get to apartheid,” he said, asking the interviewer to keep this part quiet. timesofisrael.com/in-1976-interv…
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In 2000, Israeli leader Ariel Sharon admitted in private that “the Bantustan model was the most appropriate solution to the conflict.” His vision for Palestine was an archipelago of 11 demilitarized & disconnected cantons subject to Israeli domination. haaretz.com/2003-05-13/ty-…
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In 2006, former Education Minister Shulamit Aloni published a piece in Yediot Ahronot titled “Indeed, Apartheid in Israel. She wrote: "The State of Israel carries out unmistakble & violent apartheid in the West Bank against the indigenous Palestinians." ynet.co.il/articles/0,734…
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In 2007, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: "If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses & we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights... then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.” haaretz.com/2007-11-29/ty-…
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In 2008, former Environment Minister Yossi Sarid wrote: ”Yes, It Is Apartheid”: “The white Afrikaners, too, had reasons for their segregation policy; they, too, felt threatened-a great evil was at their door...” haaretz.com/2008-04-25/ty-…
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In 2010 former PM Ehud Barak: "As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only 1 political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic…if this bloc of millions of ­Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state." Image
In 2013, the former Foreign Ministry director-general Alon Liel: “In the situation that exists today, until a Palestinian state is created, we are actually one state. This joint state,in the hope that the status quo is temporary, is an apartheid state.” timesofisrael.com/joint-israel-w…
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In 2020, former head of the Shin Bet Ami Ayalon wrote Israel “can only be described as an apartheid state... 2 sets of laws, rules, & standards, & two infrastructures ...we’ve already created an apartheid situation in Judea & Samaria where we control Palestinians by force..." Image
In 2022, former Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair: "my country has sunk to such political & moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime. It is time for the international community to recognise this reality as well.” thejournal.ie/readme/israel-…
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The elite mainstream journalist Ron Ben-Yishai published a Feb. 2023 op-ed (in Hebrew) titled “The judicial revolution has another goal – the Apartheid” ynet.co.il/news/article/b…
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The former Israeli military Northern Command commander Amiram Levin declared in Aug. 2023 “there is absolute apartheid” in the West Bank. jpost.com/breaking-news/…
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Former head of the Mossad (from 2011-2016) Tamir Pardo said in Sep. 2023 that “there is an apartheid state here…In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state.” apnews.com/article/israel…
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Israeli officials spend their careers enforcing an apartheid regime. then once they retire, they lament their life’s work. It's as if the apartheid accusation acts as a release valve for their collective guilt.

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Breaking: the President of the International Court of Justice (@CIJ_ICJ), Julia Sebutinde, plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion (icj-cij.org/node/204162) in which she voted against all provisional measures of South African's case of Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

On p. 6, Sebutinde writes: ""The name “Palestine” applied vaguely to a region that for the 400 years before World War I was part of the Ottoman Empire."

This sentence was plagiarized word for word from a 2021 article published by Douglas J. Feith by the @HudsonInstitute titled, "The Forgotten History of the Term "Palestine," (hudson.org/node/44363) in which he writes:

"“Palestine” applied vaguely to a region that for the 400 years before World War I was part of the Ottoman empire."

It gets worse. Sebutinde plagiarized the next two sentences as well. She writes:

"In 135 CE, after stamping out the second Jewish insurrection of the province of Judea or Judah, the Romans renamed that province “Syria Palaestina” (or “Palestinian Syria”). The Romans did this as a punishment, to spite the “Y’hudim” (Jewish population) and to obliterate the link between them and their province (known in Hebrew as Y’hudah). The name “Palaestina” was used in relation to the people known as the Philistines and found along the Mediterranean coast."

These 2 sentences were also plagiarized from the same Feith piece, in which he writes:

"In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea’s second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina—that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so resentfully, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews (in Hebrew, Y’hudim and in Latin Judaei) and the province (the Hebrew name of which was Y’hudah). “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast."

Sebutinde make a pitiful attempt to change a word here or there, but this is a textbook case of plagiarism. Feith's piece is not cited in her legal opinion, even though she copied and pasted multiple sentences from the piece.

What a joke of judge. She's making a mockery of the ICJ and should be removed immediately.Image
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It gets worse. She also plagiarized at least 4 sentences from The Jewish Virtual Library (jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-and-fact…).

Here are the 4 sentences from Sebutinde, and then the 4 sentences from the Jewish Virtual Library immediately following:

1. Sebutinde: "Prior to the establishment of “British Mandatory Palestine”, Palestinian Arabs viewed themselves as having a unified identity with the Arabs in the subregion until the twentieth century.
1. Jewish Virtual Library: "Prior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity."

2. Sebutinde: "When the distinguished Arab American historian, Professor Philip Hitti, testified against the Partition of Mandatory Palestine before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he remarked: “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history; absolutely not.”"
2. Jewish Virtual Library: "When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not."

3. Sebutinde: "In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria."
3. Jewish Virtual Library: "In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.""

4. Sebutinde: "The first Palestine-Arab Congress which convened in Jerusalem from 27 January to 10 February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, adopted a resolution in which it, inter alia, considered Palestine as an integral part of Arab Syria."
4. Jewish Virtual Library: "When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted: We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time.

Needless to say, Sebutinde is a pathetic excuse for a judge. If you are going to plagiarize, at least do so from a reputable source. At least, that way, you may be a dishonest person, but at least you'd get the facts right? The insanity of plagiarizing from the Jewish Virtual Library here is that she is both dishonestly representing other people's work as her own, while also spreading misinformation.

How the heck this person is the world's top judge is truly mind-blowing.
Correction: In the first tweet in this thread, I should have noted, the dissenting opinion (w/the plagiarism) was with regard to the "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." I incorrectly implied it was on the genocide opinion. My apologies.
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