From Haaretz. Emphasis mine.
NetanyahuPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency discussion with Israeli defense officials on Tuesday, following an attack by right-wing activists on an IDF base in the West Bank. “The situation is intolerable,” Netanyahu said at the opening of the discussion. “We must take care of these rioters with a firm hand. We will not tolerate a situation in which IDF officers and soldiers are attacked and distracted from protecting Israeli citizens.”
Early Tuesday morning, some 50 settlers and right-wing activists entered a West Bank military base and threw rocks, burned tires, and vandalized military vehicles. An IDF officer was lightly wounded as a result of the rock-throwing. In addition to the attack on the IDF base, right-wing activists blocked a main West Bank road and threw stones at passing Palestinian vehicles and IDF soldiers in the area.
Around 100 right-wing activists and settlers came to the area of the base before 50 of them entered the base, according to the IDF spokesman.
The youths were repelled by security forces. No arrests were made.
And notice: the IDF is in the occupied territories to protect “Israeli citizens” from Palestinian non-citizens. Isn’t that a definition of apartheid?
Also, I see that Ehud Barak has described settler violence as home-grown terror, per Ali Gharib, the blogger at CAP. I would remind you of how Israel treats terrorists in the occupied territories: with missiles that take out an entire family.
A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.
“Isn’t that a definition of apartheid?” Yes it is. And as you suggest [in the little text balloon that comes up only if you “mouse over” the blog entry title on the front page], yes, any Palestinians who might try this would be cut down without mercy.
Is it a rhetorical question, Phil?
They would be dead within a 100 meters of the base.
However since they are not Israeli citizens, rules of engagement are completely different. And it is not a definition of the apartheid but a definition of a military law.
By attacking a military installment Palestinians are effectively becoming a enemy military combatants, and therefore are considered a legitimate target.
Israeli citizens who attack military base can not be defined as the enemy combatants, and IDF has no jurisdiction over them, leaving to the police to deal with them.
http://www.adh-geneva.ch/docs/publications/Policy%20studies/Rules%20of%20Engagement.pdf
What would happen to Iraqis or Afghanis that attacked a US base compared to Americans that did it? Every country treats its citizens in a different way than it treats its enemies. Why are you surprised?
>> And notice: the IDF is in the occupied territories to protect “Israeli citizens” from Palestinian non-citizens.
Only hateful and immoral Zio-supremacists will fail to take issue with the fact that Israeli Occupation Forces are defending Israeli colonists far outside of partition borders.