Mondoweiss: Are comparisons of South African apartheid and Israel useful?

[Little Tich]

19. I'm beginning to see why you don't understand Atzmon's argumentation in all those other threads...

The OP is trying to frame the the arguments for and against the Apartheid analogy, not to provide a definite conclusion. The definition of Apartheid is only an example, the OP doesn't really bother that much with presenting a definition of Apartheid.

Frankly, I don't have a good description of what Apartheid is either - the UN definition is too dependent on Apartheid South Africa to be of any real use. I would define Apartheid loosely as one group of civilians lacking civil rights while another group has them. I don't see ethnicity as a necessary factor, it's the lack of civil rights when others have them that's the main issue.

I hope you understand that I'm not impressed when you make up your own version of the arguments in the OP and then refute them.