Do you remember many years ago in South Africa there was a lot of racial tension and separation between “whites” and “blacks.” The South African people had a name for that – apartheid. This basically means people kept apart and one group usually mistreated.
We were all horrified that such a thing happened in South Africa and when Nelson Mandela was released from Robben Island, he came out of that jail after 27 years with no bitterness and was able to be used by God to bring healing to that whole nation.
Sadly, according to Israeli Apartheid, such a situation of racial separation and tension exists in modern day Israel between the Israel and Palestinian peoples.
In South African, a lot of obvious issues were what Ben White calls “petty” where there were separate toilets, separate shops and so on. However in this book Ben White explains that the situation in Israel is more serious. The Israel jews seem to have all the advantages and benefits, whilst many Palestinians suffer with things like poor quality water, sewerage dumped on their land, random house demolitions, injustice in the courts and amongst other things the separation barrier that is being built to keep Palestinians out.
This book is an eye opener, and you would have to say that Israel are doing themselves no favours when it comes to the quest for peace in the Middle East. If they want peace they will have to try harder to be nice to their neighbours. We have much to learn – may God give grace. Book available at Amazon.
