THE MIDDLE EAST'S REAL APARTHEID By Efraim Karsh "Israel Apartheid Week his cities and campuses throughout the world. This charge, of course, is not only completely false, but the inverse of the truth. If apartheid is indeed a crime against humanity, Israel is actually the only apartheid-free state in the Middle East. By contrast, apartheid has been an integral part of the Middle East for over a millennium, and the Arab Muslim nations continue to legally, politically, and socially enforce this discriminatory practice against their hapless minorities. Religious Intolerance: Muslims historically viewed themselves as distinct from, and superior to, all non-Muslims. Non-Muslims, known in history as "Dhimmis," never enjoyed equal rights under Islam. Even non-ruling Muslim factions have been historically oppressed by their dominant co-religionists Ethnic inequality: This legacy of intolerance extends beyond the religious sphere...
Over the years, I've heard of activists claiming Israel to be an Apartheid State. Yet I studied the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and learned that Israel provides medical treatment to all people, regardless of their faith, ethnicity, or skin color, and in the hospital all are treated simply as sick people and nothing else. Even terrorists and their families receive medical treatment. This is not the case in nations like Pakistan, where this Christian man was recently beaten to death by hospital staff and security guards simply for protesting that the doctor refused to grant medical treatment to his pregnant sister. Such is life for the minorities in Pakistan. 
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