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so combustible are the passions on both sides.Rima Khalaf did just that when a report commissioned by her UN agency at the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLabeling Israel's treatment of Palestinians as \"apartheid\" is like flinging a burning match into a fuel spill - so combustible are the passions on both sides.Rima Khalaf did just that when a report commissioned by her UN agency at the request of 18 Arab member states accused Israel of having established an apartheid regime designed to dominate the Palestinian people as a whole.In a swift outcry, Israel slammed the 65-page document as anti-Semitic.The US demanded its removal and UN chief Antonio Guterres then ordered it taken off the agency's website, saying it did not reflect his views.Rather than comply, Khalaf resigned as head of ESCWA, a Beirut-based agency with 18 Arab member states and one of several UN regional bodies dealing with economic and social issues.More than a month later, Khalaf, who is of Palestinian origin, has no regrets.The report's charge of apartheid - a \"crime against humanity\" in the eyes of the International Criminal Court - deserves serious examination, she said after returning home to Jordan where she once held senior Cabinet posts.Israeli government official Michael Oren disputed the apartheid charge as a \"big lie,\" portraying the report as the latest attempt to \"apply a completely unique standard to Israel which by definition is anti-Semitic.\"Israel and its supporters are outraged at comparisons to apartheid-era South Africa, pointing to the many differences: Unlike disenfranchised blacks in segregated South Africa, Israel's Arab citizens, about 20 percent of the population, can vote, are represented in parliament and on the Supreme Court.The report says apartheid is more than an exact replica of conditions in pre-1994 South Africa.It notes that international conventions and the ICC define it more broadly, as \"inhumane acts\" committed in the context of institutionalised and systematic oppression of one racial group by another, with the intention of maintaining that regime.The report describes a \"regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole\" in complex ways that it says include a calculated fragmentation.A Palestinian state carved from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, has been touted as the redress.But 50 years on, a partition deal appears distant, even as President Donald Trump says he'll make a new attempt to broker one.Israel has said it is willing to negotiate, blaming Palestinians for failed talks of the past, but a majority in Israel's Cabinet opposes Palestinian statehood, some seek partial annexation of the West Bank, and settlement construction continues unabated.Oren conceded settlements are an issue but blamed the stalemate on Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.\"The price for them of accepting a Palestinian state is prohibited. It means accepting a Jewish state. And they can't do it.\"Amman, Jordan - 19 April 2017  1. Various of Rima Khalaf, former chief of UN regional agency ESCWA (UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rima Khalaf, former ESCWA official:\"The report tries to, now the bigger question is, is it just racial discrimination or is it, does it, together make up a system of apartheid? The report looks at the definition of apartheid as it comes in the apartheid conventions. (It) looks at the three major conditions: the inhumane acts, the fact that it is done within an institutionalised regime, and third that those acts are committed with the intention of maintaining this apartheid regime. And based on the evidence the (ESCWA) office has concluded that Israel has imposed an apartheid regime on the Palestinian people wherever they reside, whether they are in Israel or in the occupied territories or in the diaspora.\"3. Close of Khalaf4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rima Khalaf, former ESCWA official:\"Nobody is singling out Israel. Israel is singling out itself by demanding that it be recognized an ethnic state when it is multi ethnic and multicultural. Israel singles out itself when it enacts laws that discriminate among their citizens based on religion. At this time and in the 21st century this is totally unacceptable. This is in violation of the UN charter and in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that criminalises any discrimination based on religion, sex, race or ethnic origin.\"5. Various of Khalaf6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rima Khalaf, former ESCWA official:\"I don't think that we will be seeing another 50 years of (Israeli) occupation. I think the status quo is untenable. Things are changing on the ground and not only in the region but I think public opinion in the rest of the world is also changing. The apartheid regime in South Africa was dismantled not only because of the internal struggle of South Africans but because the world became less tolerant of an apartheid regime discriminating against a huge segment of its people. And I think also the world will become less tolerant of Israeli apartheid unless Israel changes. And I'm hoping that reasonable people within Israel will see that this is the right time to dismantle such policies.\"7. Various of Khalaf8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rima Khalaf, former ESCWA official: \"Apartheid according to international law obliges member states to act. So according to the apartheid convention apartheid is a crime against humanity and it is a threat towards peace and security. Hence member states, if a country is determined, or if it is determined that a country has imposed an apartheid regime, then each and every member state has a responsibility. First, not to recognise that apartheid regime as legal. Second not to aid that country in maintaining the apartheid regime. And third for all member states of the United Nations to work together to make sure that this crime ends and that the apartheid regime is dismantled.\"Tel Aviv, Israel - 20 April 20179. Deputy Minister in Israeli cabinet Michael Oren speaking10. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Oren, Deputy Minister in Israeli cabinet:\"The report is not just anti-Israel. It's anti-Semitic. And it's anti-Semitic because it's based on a big lie. And the big lie is that this country is an apartheid state. Now that's gonna come as a big surprise to the 15 Arab members of Knesset. It's gonna come as a surprise to the 150,000 Palestinians in the West Bank who cross the border every day and work in the state of Israel, to our integrated universities, hospital systems, our malls, our shopping malls, our restaurants. There's not separate bathrooms, there's not separate rooms. There's no apartheid here. It's actually deeply offensive not just to Israelis. It is deeply offensive to the real victims of apartheid. And so, of course, we're gonna reject it and we're gonna reject similar efforts by the UN. This is only one of many which single out Israel, apply a completely unique standard to Israel which by definition is anti-Semitic.\"11. Close of hands12. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Oren, Deputy Minister in Israeli cabinet:\"First I wouldn't use the word occupation. The land of Israel is our homeland. It has been our homeland. It's our tribal land for close to 4,000 years. We can't occupy our own homeland any more than say Dutch or British can occupy England or Holland. And, when you talk about the world...much of the world is not focused on this issue whether it be China, India, Eastern Europe. There are parts of the world where, yes, this is a controversial issue. And the issue of say settlements, is a controversial issue within Israel itself, but yes we have to address the attempts to delegitimise us on the basis of our relationship with the Palestinians.\"13. Close of hands14. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Oren, Deputy Minister in Israeli cabinet:The settlements are an issue. But, they aren't' the core issue. There was an Arab-Israeli conflict 50 years before the first settlement was built. Since that time Israel has made several peace offers to the Palestinians that have been rejected by the Palestinians. Most frequently with violence and they rejected it not because of the settlements, they rejected it for the same reason they have rejected every two-state solution going back to the 1930s. The price for them of accepting a Palestinian state is prohibited. It means accepting a Jewish state. And they can't do it.\"15. 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