In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

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