Occupation Good For Palestinians, Says Ex-IDF Chief Recycling Apartheid SA Propaganda

Riyaz Patel

Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank are actually better off than their counterparts in Arab countries, former IDF chief Benny Gantz has said, echoing the distasteful spin of apartheid South Africa.

Gantz’s contention that Israel’s military occupation and colonization is a blessing to Palestinians is a direct echo of South Africa’s apartheid rulers who insisted their brutal white supremacist regime was good for Black people.

Writer Ben White pointed to a 1977 New York Times interview with John Vorster, who was then prime minister of South Africa’s racist regime.

“The standard of living of the South African Black is two to five times higher than that of any Black country in Africa,” Vorster claimed.

Gantz, who is challenging Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in next