Bias? Ignorance? You bet TIME. Time to check the mirror.
No, actually what he was saying was that THAT IS THE WAY THE ASCENDANT FORCES OF PUBLICITY WOULD PAINT IT, but your inner compulsion to run, as Dan Rather did, to believe what your prejudice dictates finds another explanation. That Israelis believe they live in an apartheid state."If, and as long as between the Jordan (River) and the [Mediterranean] Sea there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or nondemocratic," warned Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak last week. "If the Palestinians vote in elections it is a binational state, and if they don't vote it is an apartheid state."
Former President Jimmy Carter suffered a verbal pummeling three years ago for comparing the standoff between Israel and the Palestinians to apartheid -- the South African system that meant not only segregation, but a denial of citizenship to a whole category of people. And so it was ironic that a key Israeli leader warned his people that the status quo on the territories conquered by Israel in 1967 amounts to the same thing.
TONY KARON has a problem. Read the rest of his scribbling. The real question is why TIME has gone this route. But then we always have the answer don't we.
2600 years and counting.
Israel, 6 million jews and 8000 square miles. New Jersey.
Arabs 300,000,000 plus and ....?? KSA 830,000, Syria 275,000, Jordan 32,000+, Iran 636,000, Egypt ..the size of Texas....
HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK WE ARE TIME?
The defense minister of Israel warning that Israel would really be an apartheid state at the Herzilya security conference, where terrorism is the main subject?