Article: U.S. Admits Israel Is Building Permanent Apartheid Regime -- Weeks After Giving It $38 Billion | OpEdNews

8.10.16

Article: U.S. Admits Israel Is Building Permanent Apartheid Regime -- Weeks After Giving It $38 Billion | OpEdNews: Honest observers on both sides of the conflict have long acknowledged that the prospects for a two-state solution are virtually non-existent: another way of saying that Israel's status as a permanent apartheid regime is inevitable. Indeed, U.S. intelligence agencies as early as 45 years ago explicitly warned that Israeli occupation would become permanent if it did not end quickly.

All relevant evidence makes clear this is what has happened. There has been no progress toward a two-state solution for many years. The composition of Israel's Jewish population -- which has become far more belligerent and right-wing than previous generations -- has increasingly moved the country further away from that goal. There are key ministers in Israel's government, including its genuinely extremist justice minister, who are openly and expressly opposed to a two-state solution. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has himself repeatedly made clear he opposes such an agreement, both in words and in deeds. In sum, Israel intends to continue to rule over and occupy Palestinians and deny them self-governance, political liberties, and voting rights indefinitely.