Imagine if I told you that in South Africa, all black people have been taken from their homes and been imprisoned. Their homes have been taken over by white people and now all those black people are prisoners and are left to die in an open air prison. Their belongings are not theirs anymore. Their house and land has been built on to house more white people and they have been told that they will never return.
In the prison their calorie intake is rationed and they are regularly denied medical treatment. The more serious cases have to appeal to the whites for treatment in hospitals, but the white people delay the decision so much that the black people die without receiving medical intervention.
Children make up half the population of the prison. The children throw stones at the police as a protest, some get shot dead. Some prisoners have managed to smuggle in arms to resist the oppression. They throw rockets out of the prison camp to say that they will die resisting this oppression. As a result the oppressors start bombing the living daylights out of the prison camp and their action receives support from world leaders for protecting its civilians and calling the prisoners aggressive.
You probably know by now that i am talking about the Palestine/Israel situation. The world would be rightly appalled by the above, yet why is the world silent over israeli/palestinian apartheid.
Nelson Mandela said “Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians"
He saw apartheid for what it is. Why are we letting this apartheid continue?