"Israel Has Chosen to be a 'Racist Apartheid State' With U.S. Support" — Says Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé

Professor Ilan Pappé: Israeli Historian, University of Exeter (London),
author of "The Idea Of Israel."

"The deeper historical context is the fact that ever since 2005, the Gaza Strip is being—or people in the Gaza Strip are being incarcerated as criminals, and their only crime is that they are Palestinians in a geopolitical location that Israel doesn’t know how to deal with. And when they elected democratically someone who was vowed to struggle against this ghettoizing or this siege, Israel reacted with all its force...

"The U.S. should apply the basic definitions of democracy to Israel and recognize that it is giving, it’s providing an unconditional support for a regime that systematically abuses the human rights and the civil rights of anyone who is not a Jew between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. If America wants clearly to support such regimes—it had done it in the past—that’s OK. But if it feels that it wants to send a different message to the Middle East, then it really has a different agenda of human rights and civil rights in Palestine."—Ilan Pappé