Quick thoughts: US veto at the United Nations
Apartheid, meaning “apartness” Afrikaans, refers to the legally and physically enforced system of racial segregation and discrimination that existed in South Africa as official state policy for the large part of the second half of the 20th century, although the term can also refer generally to any similar policy of racial separation.
Israel must be the target of the same kind of global movement that finally ended apartheid in South Africa. The US veto yesterday at the UN Security Council signaled, if nothing else, the unwillingness of the US government to be part of, much less spearhead, such a global movement.
The idea that the Middle East situation is complicated, that there are moral ambiguities, is problematic. It’s not complicated. It’s not ambiguous. It’s a simple question of whether or not you agree with or tolerate oppression. This is not a political question, a matter of left versus right, but simply a question of why one would support or tolerate oppression.
