Debanjan, I think you need to reread the article before making an unsupportable claim

Submitted by Leonid Tokman (United States), Apr 6, 2010 at 18:54

(The Barak link doesn't even work)

But in the second article that you sent, Olmert says something absolutely different than what you are implying.

He did not say that Israel has an apartheid system -- which it most certainly doesn't, whereas Saudi Arabia does!!!!

Olmert said that Israel faces a similar struggle that apartheid era South Africa went through -- and that's not because Israel has anything remotely similar to South Africa, but because the clueless liberal "useful idiots" like to compare Israeli-Palestinian situation to.

Israel's prime minister issued a rare warning yesterday that his nation risked being compared to apartheid-era South Africa if it failed to agree an independent state for the Palestinians. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, Ehud Olmert said Israel was "finished" if it forced the Palestinians into a struggle for equal rights.

If the two-state solution collapsed, he said, Israel would "face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, and as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished". Israel's supporters abroad would quickly turn against such a state, he said.

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