its getting big when a former mossad director openly recognizes the realities in israel;

The Associated Press published an interview yesterday with former Israeli Mossad chief, Tamir Pardo, who said that Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the West Bank.

The revelation is old news, of course, as the reality of apartheid is by now recognized within the consensus of the international human rights community. In fact, limiting the apartheid designation to only the West Bank is itself limited — since even organizations like Israel’s B’tselem have belatedly framed apartheid as existing “from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.” What is new about the AP article, however, is who is admitting the reality of apartheid — a heavyweight of the Israeli security establishment. 

Pardo did not mince words in describing the situation. “There is an apartheid state here,” he said. “In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state.”.......more.........