10th February 2014, 03:09 PM
Wax Wrote:I am with tool on this "it's never that simple"
The original question cannot be answered without getting someone's back up and is simplistic to such a degree as to be unanswerable. Is this forum the place for this type of poll anyway? Yes I know it's good to debate issues but this is one of those issues that is divisive and no matter which side you come down on will cause someone else to go into rant mode.
I disagree. The question is simple, but is simple to answer. The definitions of what is Apartheid are out there, as are the findings of several investigations into the matter.
What is more difficult to answer/come to terms with and/or accept are the implications and political/religious/racial/moral/historical ramifications of the answer.
I agree that politics in the media is often a case of jumping from one badwagon to another, however.....
I feel that the world has ignored, avoided, forgotten and justified the Israeli form of Apartheid through remaining WWII guilt, political laziness and self-serving-looking-the-other-way-ness in favour of an easy guilt-placating illusion of right and wrong and hunt for stability.
I could easily be wrong though. I have never been to the middle east, though I have met people who live there. I have no doubt that the media (BBC, Rueters, Al Jazeera and Jerusalem Post) are each biased in their own way and even tracking stories through the differing sides the real story is lost.
It's just so obvious the biasing in reporting/opinion/justification/ or even what is wrong and what is ok/ignored or even what you can or can't say with respect to the war crimes committed by Israel, Syria, Al queda, the FSA etc etc.