Humanity First
‘Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world.’ - Angela Davis.
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is not a new issue but one that has been plaguing the region for decades. This is not a war. These are not equal adversaries, especially with the aid of global powers like the US supplying the tools of destruction to the Israeli government. The people of Palestine have been crying out for justice for decades.
The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, has been widely criticized as an apartheid regime by international bodies and human rights organizations.
The term apartheid, originally used to describe the racially segregated system in South Africa, has been increasingly applied to the situation in Israel and Palestine. The Israeli government’s policies of discrimination, segregation, and unequal treatment of Palestinians living in the occupied territories mirror the characteristics of apartheid. Palestinians are subjected to restrictive laws, checkpoints, and a separate legal system, all of which perpetuate a system of racial segregation and discrimination. Three years after apartheid and white minority rule was dismantled in South Africa and Mandela was elected president in historic all-race elections in 1994, he stated: "But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
"But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." - Nelson Mandela.
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