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Corey Gil Shuster (CGS): Do you think you live in an Apartheid state?

Ibrahim: This country is an advanced country. It proves itself totally. It’s progressive in all ways. If you look at the highways, the hospitals, it couldn’t be any better.

CGS: As an Arab Israeli Palestinian, do you think the treatment you receive on the street or at hospitals is different than if you were a Jew?

Ibrahim: It’s amazing, I was in the hospital for a year and a half and I was like their son, they treated me so well.

CGS: So you don’t feel separate from Jews?

Ibrahim: No way. No way. I was treated so well.

I’ve posted the video farther down in this post. The interview takes place about 12 minutes into the clip.

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The free world has endured more than six decades of related nonsense, as have, and God only knows, the refugees of 1948 and their descendants.

However, political, religious, and secular intellectual poisons course through cultural systems on that scale. Few of such misdirect attention quite the way that Jew hate does, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the political families, cliques, and movements that rely on it for whipping the passions of deluded, gullible, subjugated, and weak.

Arab leaders and states have penned a substantial portion of the refugees of wars against Israel in camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt.

Jews do not maintain such camps.

In the preoccupied territories, perhaps today more heavily contested for complete Jewish-majority Israeli sovereignty but nonetheless home to Arabs, Christian and Muslim, Israel and the free world have been waiting through the same decades for Fatah and Hamas to produce governance meeting contemporary standards in elections, law, and in human rights.

So far: not much luck.

Gaza: Abuse, Harassment of Activists | Human Rights Watch – November 2013.

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Chloe Valdary: How Would You Respond to BDS? – YouTube – 12/21/2013.

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HERE IS ISRAEL – Israel Apartheid by Ari Lesser – YouTube – 12/15/2014.

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Tamim became a folk hero in the Arab world for publicly embarrassing the Mossad–which is why many Arabs were surprised, a year and a half later, to see Tamim declare that he would not hesitate to relay intelligence to Israel to help thwart terror attacks on its soil.

The Policeman and the Journalist: A Mid-East Policy Dilemma | Joseph Braude – 2/24/2014.

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The report issued by Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) calls out the PA and Hamas for many instances of torture and oppression, according to Mosaic Magazine.

“Evidently, most Western governments, journalists and human rights organizations have chosen to endorse the Palestinian Authority’s stance that the only evil-doers are the Israelis,” Mosaic reported. “And that is precisely why the ICHR report on the anarchy, lawlessness, and human rights violations by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas will be completely ignored in the West.”

Report: Palestinian Authority, Hamas Cited for Widespread Human Rights Abuses | Washington Free Beacon – 2/13/2014.

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GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP – The Gaza Strip’s Hamas authorities have blocked a U.N. refugee agency from introducing textbooks promoting human rights into local schools, saying the text ignores Palestinian cultural mores and focuses too heavily on “peaceful” means of conflict resolution.

Hamas bans U.N. book on human rights | The Japan Times – 2/14/2014.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said recently that “800 millionaires and 1,600 near-millionaires control the tunnels at the expense of both Egyptian and Palestinian national interests.”

Egypt destroys tunnels on Gaza border | Mid-East | Saudi Gazette – 2/25/2014.

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There is something for everyone. An all-inclusive package to fight “evil corporations”, “apartheid”, “racism”, “militarism”, “gender oppression” — or any other perceived discriminations. On university campuses all across Europe and North America, the BDS’s message is simple: “If you have a grievance worth getting mad about, we have just the right punching bag for you.”

The BDS campaign camouflages itself as the reincarnation of the Résistance, the Civil-Rights Movement or the Gandhian Civil-Disobedience movement in our times. The fact that it has nothing to do with the reality of Israel isn’t allowed to dampen the mood at this anti-Israel slugfest.

The punching bag bigots of anti-Israel boycotts – The Commentator – 2/24/2014.

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