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04-21-2007, 07:50 PM
Fifth column forever? Why is Arab criticism always
labeled as conspiracy to destroy Israel?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3385477,00.html

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Vienna, April 10, 2007

Researcher Says Israel Responsible for at least 97.8
Percent of Serious Human Rights Abuses in Conflict

As Israel comes under increasing pressure over its
policies against Palestinians, an independent Swedish
researcher today releases an extensive analysis of the
Middle Eastern conflict since the formation of the
state of Israel in 1948. According to Dr. Anthony
Löwstedt, the vast majority of grave violations of
human rights falls under the responsibility of the
Jewish state.

In the third edition of his study, 'Apartheid:
Ancient, Past, and Present', Löwstedt concludes that
no less than 97.8 percent of gross human rights
violations so far committed in the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict are sole responsibilities of the Israeli
Jews, and 2.2 percent, at the most, are Palestinian
crimes.

Israel was accused of apartheid by John Dugard, the
United Nations Human Rights Council's Special Envoy to
the Occupied Palestinian Territories in February this
year. In a report to the Council, Dugard recommended
bringing the charge of apartheid, a crime against
humanity under international law, against Israel to
the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
Previously, two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, former
U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and the former South
African Anglican Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, had also
raised accusations of apartheid against Israel.

According to all four and many others, Israel is
implementing the same system of oppression that Whites
used against the indigenous black majority in South
Africa until 1994. And just like Blacks committed a
number of violent crimes against Whites and
occasionally incited people to violence against South
African Whites in the liberation struggle there,
Palestinians have carried out similar crimes against
Israeli Jews.

However, the overwhelming majority of violent crimes
as well as cases of incitement to violence are
responsibilities of the privileged ethnicities in both
countries, according to Löwstedt. Moreover, he points
out seven kinds of systematic, racist crimes which he
says are the sole responsibilities of the Israeli Jews
and the South African Whites and of similar ethnic
elites in other apartheid societies. These crimes
include ethnically discriminatory repopulation,
citizenship, land, work, access, education, and
language policies and practices.

Löwstedt has worked in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories as well as in South Africa as an academic
and for the UN. He currently teaches at Webster
University in Vienna, Austria.

Read the study:

Apartheid – Ancient, Past, and Present: Systematic and
Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt,
South Africa, and Israel/Palestine, Vienna:
Gesellschaft für Phänomenologie und kritische
Anthropologie, 2007, 3 rd edition,

http://www.dada.at/gems/gesellschaft/Apartheid.pdf

The author is available for additional comments and
interviews by return e-mail at [email protected] (//lowstedt%40gmail.com/).

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