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Not an ‘apartheid state’ - but is that good enough?

If Israel is to survive, that will be achieved by courageous policy, not debate about historical analogies

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Dan Perry
Jan 04, 2022
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Yair Lapid is surely right that in 2022 Israel will increasingly be portrayed as a so-called “apartheid state.” He’s also right to be concerned: it’s a scurrilous false analogy that knowledgeable and  serious journalists should reject – but how many pass that bar?

As Lapid is now the foreign minister, we can expect Is…

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