JERUSALEM: A leading Israeli human rights group has begun describing both Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single"apartheid" regime, using an explosive term that the country's leaders and their supporters vehemently reject.
Israeli soldiers check the ID of a Palestinian woman at the Tapuach junction checkpoint next to the West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian labourers line up to cross a checkpoint at the entrance to the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem. Palestinian leaders agreed to the current territorial divisions in the Oslo accords in the 1990s, and the Palestinian Authority is recognised as a state by dozens of nations. That, Kontorovich says, is a far cry from the territories designated for Black South Africans under apartheid - known as bantustans - to which many Palestinians compare the areas governed by the PA.
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