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Source: http://www.hudsonny.org/2010/03/for-israels-arabs-it-is-not-apartheid.php
For Israel's Arabs It Is Not Apartheid
(Hudson Institute New York) Khaled Abu Toameh - An Arab member of the Knesset who goes all the way to the U.S. and Canada to tell university students and professors that Israel is an apartheid state is not only a hypocrite and a liar, but is also causing huge damage to the interests of his own Arab voters and constituents. If Israel were an apartheid state, what is this Arab doing in the Knesset? Doesn't apartheid mean that someone like him would not, in the first place, even be permitted to run in an election? Fortunately, Arab citizens can go to the same beaches, restaurants and shopping malls as Jews in this "apartheid" state. The Arab community has a free media that many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza envy. Ironically, an Arab newspaper in Nazareth or Haifa that is licensed by Israel enjoys more freedom than the media controlled by Hamas and Fatah, as well as most corrupt Arab dictatorships. The Arab Knesset member's presence on these campuses plays into the hands of those Israelis who accuse the Arab citizens, the majority of whom remain loyal to the state, of being a "fifth column" and an "enemy from within." The more the Jews are afraid of their fellow Arab citizens, the more the latter will suffer.