With Israelis and Palestinians in a seemingly insoluble conflict, in which the two peoples legitimate historical and biblical rights to the same country and the aspirations to have Jerusalem as its capital, the imitation of post-apartheid South Africa The best and perhaps only blocked can establish a lasting peace in the Middle East. Post-apartheid South Africa is particularly relevant because Israel has the demographic character of the major areas of changeOccupied Territories (West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza) with the construction of Jewish settlements, and because currently there is a striking resemblance to South Africa (founded 13 years of apartheid South Africa before independence from Great Britain) from 1948 to 1994 introduced universal suffrage. The similarities and differences between the post-independence South Africa (1961-1994) and Israel (1948-present), the effectiveness of sanctions and the final transformationSouth Africa in a state model, and what the future holds for the future of Israel will be explained later.
South Africa: Apartheid Israel: Zionism - a neutral:
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901-1966) designed the system of apartheid or segregation of the races to ensure political and economic power remained in the hands of the white minority (sometimes, especially in Africa as "Africa is the only white tribe "participating in its African roots back in 1659, first as the Netherlandssettled in the Cape of Good Hope, which was in the leisure of indigenous peoples, who lived at the time deeper in the interior of Africa) of the population is under a single state, multi-ethnic, politically it would be for black majority, who have tried to gain political representation and power.
During apartheid black people were common associates of the ten home based self-government are freely together for economic reasons, while the stateparticularly education, health care and other services. As a result, blacks are not as non-citizens to participate in elections in South Africa and have had little impact on the poor service they received. By AJ Christopher, the partition and population in South Africa (The Geographical Journal. 72, No. 2, American Geographical Society, New York, April 1982), the government of apartheid Africa justified claims " only a variety of identity was possible [was] andPartition ... [Is] a necessary condition for political and cultural wellbeing of people in South Africa. "
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) is the creation of Zionism, a movement that seeks to create a Jewish homeland in the Middle East (the 2000 season out of the Jewish Diaspora) in response to anti-Semitism, pogroms against Jews in the goal committed accredited Russian Empire and the Holocaust of Nazi Germany. This led to the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Politicaleconomic power is consolidated in the hands of the Jews in Israel with the Arabs [Palestinians in particular) / non-Jews (especially Christians and Muslims], with limited political representation.
For the modern Jewish homeland, the Jewish people around the world were encouraged to settle in the Middle East (with the slogan "A land without people for a people without land" [1]), although the presence indigenous Arabic / non-Jews from the late nineteenth century. Many indigenousThe Palestinians were expelled or fled shortly before and was in Israel in 1948 (approximately 25% of refugees were displaced before the official founding of Israel) was established after the war of 1967 (estimated between 700,000 and 800,000 and 120,000 to 170,000, respectively). Zionists to justify their movement to the fact that their ancestors occupied the country in modern Israel based on biblical and historical precedents.
their countryIn all cases?
The country with Israel and the occupied territories was originally called a nation African Asians who first inhabited the Canaanites came from Arabia around 4000 BC a second wave of Afro-Asian peoples in the flat area between 2800-2600 before Christ.
The Israelites before Abraham did not bring to the area with the arrival of the Holy Land until around 1800 BC, when the force pushing indigenous peoples (Babylonians, probably based on aLetter to the Egyptian pharaoh wrote complaining about "disruptive intrusion" of "hungry all the nomadic tribes of the earth (Jews) who have been attracted by the wealth and luxury of the populated areas, and tried to appropriate it for themselves "pro Canaan (fact-index)) to one side.
From the Jewish point of view, they have won, and rightly so, because the land of Canaan was promised by God in Genesis 17:7-8 says, "I make my covenant between me and thee, and establish itsDescendants after you through the generations, was eternal covenant with God, you and your descendants after you. And I to you and your descendants after you, the country where you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan in perpetual inheritance, and be their God. "
That said, is the seed of Abraham, Jews, Christians and Muslims. son of Abraham, Isaac and Israel must be like after the ancestor of the Jews and Christians, and Ishmael, Abrahameldest son, is considered the father of Muslims.
Although it is based on Genesis 21:10, Sarah, Abraham's wife convinces him, his eldest son refused (with apologies malignant due to the fact that Jews in the oral tradition and written Ismael currently considered as the bad (although he had not done anything wrong with that), but sorry "for the benefit of his son born) -" and said to Abraham, "get rid of this slave and her child because the child not be a slave to share the inheritance with my sonIsaac, "that there was no legal basis. According to the law of the land of Mesopotamia, Ishmael was Abraham and his heirs.
In short, the root of conflict in the Middle East is based applications that compete with respect for the legitimate heir of Abraham. Jews and Christians in general, most see as the legitimate heir of Abraham, Isaac, in conflict with Muslims this site Ismael on the basis of the above in this position.
Although Genesis 17:08 is here, literally as the Word of God is, the country has beenpromised, all descendants of Abraham - Isaac and Ishmael, and all their descendants are the heirs of God. Therefore, the country was occupied during the different phases of the history of Jews, Christians and Muslims. Each with a legitimate claim to the biblical story and the country itself, the only practical option for them is to be released.
Partition vs. unitary multi-ethnic state:
From 1986 (after the minimum efficiency Sullivan Principles, which waswas adopted in 1977 for U.S. companies operating in South Africa in the hope that integration would then also be integrated into the national society as a whole), if the United States joined the international community for economic sanctions against South Africa to end apartheid led the establishment of an African country in the western third country for damages (which is in Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town) and amending boundaries of the houseBlacks a higher proportion of natural resources and increase their profitability had been among the options considered. Most black African National Congress (ANC) has rejected the claim submitted by Knolly Moses these partitions, the enemies of apartheid: Who's who in South Africa (Emerge, Volume 1, Number 5, March 1990 .) "South Africa played to all who live there, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people." In the same way, NelsonMandela (born 1918), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, the President of South Africa, was elected in 1994, reaffirmed ANC calls for "one person, one vote in a unitary state" in an interview February 15, 1990 Johannesburg Television Service in the discussion of negotiations with the then president Frederik Willem de Klerk (1936) by the national leadership of the Party.
Two-state solution untenable
With the massive construction of Jewish settlements in the last three decades in the occupied territoriesAreas, continued judaïtzar East Jerusalem and the demographic reality, is no longer a two-state solution to maintain, since every Palestinian nation is probably not just have the best relationship with employees and economically similar countries black created by apartheid in South Africa. Moreover, although a viable two-State has done today, only delaying the inevitable, if the Palestinian Arabs would outnumber Jews in Israel, in the words of then-IsraelThe Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (Kadima) (born 1945) during an interview in 2007, would lead to isolation, "an African-style struggle for equal South of voting rights" in this case " that Israel would end "[2] after a long-term growth and economic losses of international sanctions reviews for the mandatory application of universal suffrage, and could lead to Jewish emigration.
Based on current trends in birth rates, the Arab-Palestinian population expected to reachEquality in the area that includes Israel and the Occupied Territories in 2016 by Iqbal Tamimi (Palestine Think Tank, 20 June 2008) changes in the Palestinian population). Read an article by Yossi Alpher, too late for two states? (Ha'aretz, 20 February 2004) achieved the majority of Arab Palestine from 2054 to 2074, when Israel, the occupied territories are excluded only to a minority government of Israel under the compulsory practical legal and illegal Under Article 7 of2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which states that committed against "an identifiable group of political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious or other ... in the context of an institutionalized regime of oppression and systematic domination of each racial group or racial groups ... with the intention of maintaining that regime, "is a crime against humanity.
Therefore, Daniel gavron, according to reports in the state by Peter HirschbergAwakening (Ha'aretz, 12 October 2003), "we (the Jews of Israel) are left with only one alternative: Israeli-Palestinian coexistence in one nation" as the country can not be partitioned sense " He added: "If the Jews of Israel now to ensure long-term future in the region want to have to agree to renounce the Jewish sovereignty and move quickly, while the balance of power tilted more in their favor, a multiethnic democracy. "
Finally, the solution of one state, one of the "alternatives" are played byThe Arab League, Amr Moussa, secretary general (1936) when he said: "We have the possibility that the peace process (the current concept of two states) will be a comprehensive study of the fault, we need alternatives .... " plans in light of the current impasse, in which the discussions were not conducted as a year and seems unlikely to play anytime soon Avi Issacharoff reported Arabs must prepare alternatives to the failure of the process peace "(Ha'aretz, 27 March 2010).
It is a multiethnic country,Unit Israel feasible?
The proof of the peaceful transformation of South Africa from white minority domination of the black-majority rule is based, in which fears reprisals for genocide in Africa (the Battle of Blood River in 1838 that an attack camps in Africa, where Zulu warriors were killed women and children followed, which led 10000-15000 470 Voortrekker Zulu attackers were defeated by Andries Pretorius (1798-1853) is based on your psyche) was never realized. Bodes well for the Jews of Israel, despite their fears that a solution of a state "leads to war (although Mandela said at the time of his release from prison in 1990, his desire to peace and reconciliation, refused to abandon armed struggle) a bloody war without end. "[3]
However, although South Africa has been exposed to international economic sanctions, South African whites were reluctant to change citing an existential threat, one issue raised by the vast majority of ecosystemsJews in Israel today. By Ali Abunimah, Israel and the Jewish settlement of a state (Al-Arabiya. November 17, 2009), the concept of majority rule by the "products" of white South Africans and the fear of physical violence, total collapse, the flight and expulsion "as late as in 1988 (again the same with the Israeli Jews today, when they imagine a future under the control of most Arab-Israeli). As a result , 80% of white South Africans, the concept of universal suffrage for their countryits president, FW de Klerk in 1989, this evolution of this country would be "fatal blow".
The challenge was to convince the African National Congress, a kind of division of power and partition of Africa, has firmly rejected. Similar allegations were made by Israeli Prime Minister last two. Both Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) (b. 1949) insisted that the Palestinian leadership to recognize the right of Israel's right to existJewish state, a development that is unlikely.
But as Ali Abunimah, Israel and the Jewish settlement of a state, "there is little reason for the transformation [of Israel in a multi-ethnic unitary state] I can not believe that a well managed process," such as South Africa.
Statements of major Palestinian leadership to show that transformation is possible. Neturei Karta meeting with Haniyeh in Gaza (Ynet July 16, 2009), in Gaza, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas)(Building 1963) during a meeting in July 2009, four leaders of Neturei Karta Jewish sect (which, although widely discredited in Israel for his belief that the country has not, until the Messiah were established according to opinion had come, but it is important that the views Haniyeh no Jews in general) shows that not all Jews are the enemies of Arabs and Muslims. The problem comes with the job ... and his desire to include allPalestinians. "In the same way, Osama Hamdan (born 1965), a senior official of Hamas, the design of most multi-ethnic Israel in the Palestinian government, urged the peaceful coexistence of Jews and Arabs," the reference to "a Jewish community lived for centuries in Nablus and is intact and has not hitherto been expatriates to be "Palestinian government of Hamas calls for the coexistence of (Al-Arabiya, Dubai, 20 May 2009). In addition, Hamas Anas Altikriti is not Al-Qaeda (Guardian, 21 September 2009) wroteThe Hamas leader Khaled Mashal (b. 1956) in an interview "clearly established that the Palestinian struggle [There are] far from being a conflict between Muslims and Jews were the Palestinians against the occupiers were dispossessed of their households had fought and countries irrespective of their religion, race or creed. "Altikriti Meshal added that" it was also confirmed that was the concept of harmony in the psyche of most Palestinians, and genocide that nowJews in Europe (which he calls a "terrible crime") was not only alien to the Palestinians, but residents of the region as a whole. "Just as Daniel Pipes says, Salam Fayyad says yes to the Jews living in a Palestinian State (July 5, 2009), Salam Fayyad (Fatah) (1952) West Bank, Prime Minister said that" kind of country we want to look for is that in any case, increasing the values of tolerance, coexistence, mutualThe respect and respect for all cultures and religions. The non-discrimination for any reason. The Jews, if they have decided to remain living in the state of Palestine will enjoy these rights ... "
As a result, Peter Hirschberg, a member of an awakening, Daniel gavron, "says the hope of Jewish history, religion and culture can all [a multi-ethnic unitary state] is satisfied." Jews can be seen in their religious and national holidays in their ageHome. You can create your own unique Jewish culture. "
Transformation of South Africa: a model for the future of Israel:
The remarkable transformation of South Africa was a white minority government of depriving the building of creating pseudo-state of the black population and racial segregation is now based on a platform of freedom, democracy and human rights, a leading integrated model. The peaceful and orderly transition to majorityRule, inclusion and respect for all, despite the country's rapid movement to the right, apparently lost in the South African system of international legitimacy, and existential fears of genocide then dominant minorities and their supporters, The transformation shows that redemption is possible for other countries.
Fifteen years after the transformation of South Africa, Jacob Zuma (born 1942), a month before his election as third president of the country after apartheid pro Brulliard Karin WhiteBoers in South Africa, including voice Hear From ANC Leader (The Washington Post, 14 April 2009), said pointing to the white minority, "I think, a Zulu, so must appreciate Buren've always said that we are a unique country .. We have a tribe was given a white tribe, the African in every sense. "
appealed to Palestinian leaders and Arab scholars, the acceptance and support for tolerance and human rights and respect for Jewish culture,This transformation is complementary to Israel in the peace efforts in the Middle East, finally, the establishment of a unitary, multiethnic electoral law that includes general, regardless of religion, ethnicity and gender is likely .
If this is achieved, it is possible that Israel could cause the collapse of its security fence that Palestinians and covers a large part of the worldview as a separation wall and the dismantling of its nuclear arsenal, estimated at just over 200 tests, which now threatens widespreadregional distribution. Shortly before the majority rule, with little need for nuclear weapons to the enemies that threatened the country during apartheid, discouraged, reducing South Africa to its arsenal of six nuclear bombs, and became a signatory to Non-Proliferation Treaty and Chemical Weapons Convention in 1991 and 1995, respectively.
Moreover, if Israel becomes a unitary multinational state, and Alia - by law the right of every Jew to immigrate to IsraelPalestinian right of return - the law requires that all of the first generation of Palestinian refugees and their descendants (over four million), fled or were expelled from the land during the founding of Israel in 1948 [as Nakba (the day of the disaster) requested that the Palestinians], and as a result of the 1967 war - could oppose a coherent policy in which the other was not reconciled.
Conclusion:
With the recent efforts have focused on the Middle Easta solution of two states that exist in a peaceful settlement of Palestine and Israel together side by side, apparently stalled, as the population distribution and development of housing, demand for both parts of Jerusalem to serve as the capital Credit to both sides of the other "right of return", due in part because of its historical and biblical legitimate right for the same country that the post-apartheid South Africa seems to be the only solution seems to serveendless conflict.
Maybe, if Israel has become a unitary multinational state could, in Hebrew and the legitimate exercise of the Palestinian right of return, were each group (Christian, Jewish, Muslim) guarantees cultural rights, political rights, the constant conflict between the descendants of Ishmael and Isaac, as told in Genesis 16.12 - its "... his (Ishmael) with his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and live in the hostility toward all hisBrothers, "was the same way, Ishmael and Isaac came together in peace 25:7-10 says resolved upon the death of Abraham, as in the book of Genesis:" In general, Abraham lived percent and 75 years. And Abraham expired and died in good old age, old and full of years and went to meet his parents. His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites.It was Abraham buried his wife Sarah. "
If so, Isaiah 02:04 - ". Nacion They forge their swords into plow grilles and their spears into pruning hooks did not affect train without sword nation against nation, nor war" E Isaiah 65: 25 - "The wolf and 'will be grazed together, the lion will eat straw like the ox ... Do not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, saith the Lord" could be met creating a lasting peace .