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It's Not Apartheid, It's Security

By Jonathan Simor

?The basis of separation is not ethnic since Israeli Arabs and Jerusalem residents with Israeli ID cards can use the road,? argues Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, a conservative research organization. "The basis of the separation is to keep out of secure areas people living in chaotic areas."Israel's increasingly malignant 40 year occupation of Palestine provides an ongoing mirror for the consequences of governing through crime. For most of those years, the Israeli governments have insisted on treating an apparently insolvable political conflict as a manageable security problem (with some moments of insight like early Oslo). But as security increasingly demands the destruction of democratic ideals that have been central to Israel's state building project, the slow deformation of institutions is becoming apparent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).