You are parroting typical Israeli hasbara that they have made for Anglosphere Jews to create an alternative reality for them. This hasbara is at least 20 years old. It becomes pathetic to repeat it. …explicitly racist and freely available legislation made the apartheid regime (in South Africa) in some sense more ‘honest’ in its discriminatory intent. This is nowhere more apparent than in the case of ‘road apartheid’ (which was not practised in South Africa) in the West Bank which establishes separate but substantially unequal road networks for Jewish settlers and Palestinians, without any clear legal basis and without any notice of reservation of the kind that South Africa used to reserve separate parks, buses, beaches, and other public amenities for exclusively white occupation.
— Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, supra note 141, at paras 113, 206, 208, 938, 1427, 1577, 1579, and 1616 respectively.
The wall that Israel commenced building through the West Bank in 2002, and which was held to be contrary to international law by the International Court of Justice in 2004, is a major exercise in both social engineering and territorial fragmentation.
— Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory [2004] ICJ Rep 136.
Today it is clear that security is at best a secondary justification for the wall. Its primary purpose is the annexation of land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that accommodates Jewish settlements.
— The function of the wall as an instrument of annexation has been consistently clear in the statements of Israeli leaders. For just one example see the assertion of then Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in 2005 that the wall will serve as ‘the future border of the state of Israel’: Yoaz, ‘Justice minister: West Bank fence is Israel’s future border’, Ha’aretz, 1 Dec. 2005
— A Jan. 2012 proposal by Israel that its final borders should be based on the route of the wall so as to encompass the settlements on its western side, as well as all of East Jerusalem, is the latest reiteration of this blueprint: Daraghmeh and Perry, ‘Israel proposes West Bank barrier as border’, Associated Press, 27 Jan. 2012.
The wall not only results in the unlawful seizure of 10.2 per cent of West Bank territory but effectively divides the West bank into three principal cantons – north, centre, and south – and numerous sub-cantons.
— Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territo- ries occupied since 1967’, UN Doc. A/62/275, 17 Aug. 2007, at para. 28.
Israel’s wall and its associated infrastructure of gates and permanent checkpoints reveal an intention to impose a system of permanent enclaves in which residence and passage are determined by racial identities – within the context of the occupation while it persists, and ultimately facilitating the annexation of large swathes of the West Bank. This will leave for the Palestinians, at best, the possibility of a Bantustan-type state in the remaining reserves.
— Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?: A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law.
— John Duggan and John Reynolds (2009)
Hebron is one of the clearest examples of segregation/apartheid at work with clearly marked roads for Jews (which are well kept) and Palestinians (which are mainly dirt roads).
Even as recently as December 2019, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released a damning report on the racist nature of the treatment of Palestinians. Including segregation:
21. The Committee reiterates its concern (CERD/C/ISR/CO/14-16, para. 11) that the Israeli society continues to be segregated as it maintains Jewish and non-Jewish sectors, including two systems of education with unequal conditions, as well as separate municipalities, namely Jewish municipalities and the so-called “municipalities of the minorities”, which raises issues under article 3 of the Convention. The Committee is particularly concerned about the continued full discretion of the Admissions Committees to reject applicants deemed “unsuitable to the social life of the community” (arts. 3, 5 and 7).
22. As regards the specific situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Committee remains concerned (CERD/C/ISR/CO/14-16, para. 24) at the consequences of policies and practices which amount to segregation, such as the existence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of two entirely separate legal systems and sets of institutions for Jewish communities in illegal settlements on the one hand and Palestinian populations living in Palestinian towns and villages on the other hand. The Committee is appalled at the hermetic character of the separation of the two groups, who live on the same territory but do not enjoy either equal use of roads and infrastructure or equal access to basic services, lands and water resources. Such separation is materialized by the implementation of a complex combination of movement restrictions consisting of the Wall, the settlements, roadblocks, military checkpoints, the obligation to use separate roads and a permit regime that impacts the Palestinian population negatively (art. 3).
23. Recalling its previous concluding observations (CERD/C/ISR/CO/14-16, para.11), the Committee draws the State party’s attention to its general recommendation 19 (1995) concerning the prevention, prohibition and eradication of all policies and practices of racial segregation and apartheid, and urges the State party to give full effect to article 3 of the Convention to eradicate all forms of segregation between Jewish and non-Jewish communities and any such policies or practices which severely and disproportionately affect the Palestinian population in Israel proper and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
https://www.adalah.org/uploads/uploads/INT_CERD_COC_ISR_40809_E.pdf
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There is of course no "terrorism" from Palestinian side, the West Bank is known for its constant peaceful demonstrations in which Jewish and international citizens participate, that are being brutally beaten, gassed and shot at by Israeli Zionist authorities. There is no way to argue with a racist that apriori accepts "Israeli right to exist". Especially the one who is not there. And has never lived on the other side of the wall in the Palestinian community. Not in Gaza either. Racism towards Palestinian nation is expressed in that the racists call Palestinian anticolonial resistance "terrorism" - any means of resistance, including speech, poetry, marches, demonstrations. sit-in protests, books, public talks. No, a colinial entity, an ethnostate, a race-exclusivist state cannot claim "security" It has placed its own citizens as human shields already by creating such a racist, Jews-only state.
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Mixed marriages are prohibited in Israel if they are between Palestinians and Israeli Jews - and cannot be done inside Israel if they are between Jews and other world nationals, such as Turkey or Mexico - people must go marry abroad. "Security concerns" are a lie, as usual. Human Rights Watch said in 2012 that the “sweeping ban” without “any individual assessments of whether the person in question could threaten security, is unjustified” and “imposes severely disproportionate harm on the right of Palestinians and Israeli citizens to live with their families.”
The discrimination in the law could be measured “by its effects on Palestinian citizens of Israel as opposed to Jewish citizens,” it added.
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister at the time, admitted the true purpose of the law in 2005.
“There is no need to hide behind security arguments,” Sharon said. “There is a need for the existence of a Jewish state.”
