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BY TOPIC: Apartheid

Apartheid is a crime against humanity, whose policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination violate the principles of international law, in particular the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and constitute a serious threat to international peace and security. Historically applied to the State of South Africa, it took decades for international bodies and organizations to acknowledge that Israel was also an Apartheid state.

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‘The Two-State Delusion,’ a well-researched but mistitled saga of a failed peace process [Book Review]

‘The Two-State Delusion,’ a well-researched but mistitled saga of a failed peace process [Book Review]

by | December 3, 2016 | Books, Writings

University of Massachusetts Boston professor Padraig O’Malley’s The Two-State Delusion’s title suggests that there is something paradoxical in persevering with a proposed solution of two states, Israel and Palestine, as a way forward; the thrust of the historical accounts and the arguments made, however, are actually geared more toward convincing the reader that what failed is the process rather than the two-state paradigm itself, which has never yet been tested. A more accurate title would have been “Eulogy for a U.S.-Monopolized Peace Process.”