The issue really is about double-standards. People call Israel “apartheid” for refusing to give people in the occupied territories citizenship status. But I didn’t hear any Americans calling the United States apartheid when we occupied Iraq, and didn’t give Iraqis US citizenship.
This is flat out ridiculous. Politics by keyword does not cut it. I’m not going to defend the US invasion or occupation of Iraq but the US wasn’t controlling the territory in order to one day make it the 51st state, by moving Americans there en masse while demolishing the homes, crops and livelihoods of Iraqis.
The much closer analogy is the British occupation of Northern Ireland; territory it claimed as its own (the full country name is the United Kingdom og Great Britain and Northern Ireland). The people of Northern Ireland did have British citizenship, whether they wanted it or not.
If you genuinely think your analogy is a good one, please, read some history and think a bit harder. You don’t have to defend the indefensible.
This is flat out ridiculous. Politics by keyword does not cut it. I’m not going to defend the US invasion or occupation of Iraq but the US wasn’t controlling the territory in order to one day make it the 51st state, by moving Americans there en masse while demolishing the homes, crops and livelihoods of Iraqis.
The much closer analogy is the British occupation of Northern Ireland; territory it claimed as its own (the full country name is the United Kingdom og Great Britain and Northern Ireland). The people of Northern Ireland did have British citizenship, whether they wanted it or not.
If you genuinely think your analogy is a good one, please, read some history and think a bit harder. You don’t have to defend the indefensible.