Amos Schocken (anti-racist Jewish Israeli writer) on Israeli Apartheid (2016): “There are many differences between conditions in South Africa during the apartheid era and those current in the land from the Jordan River to the sea, especially in the territories that Israel controls beyond its internationally recognized borders. However, there is one important feature they share: two peoples living on one piece of land. One people has all the rights and protections, while the other is deprived of numerous rights and lives under the former's control… Israel as an apartheid state is not a viable situation, not only because of the corruption of values but also because this predicament is liable to lead Israel, like South Africa in its time, to banishment from the family of nations. It is not for nothing that Israel insists on defining itself as the only democracy in the Middle East, although in fact it is only a democracy for part of its residents, and therefore is not a democracy. (South Africa was a democracy for white people only, and therefore not a democracy)… The growing delegitimization of Israel is this country's own handiwork” (Amos Schocken, “Only international pressure will end Israeli Apartheid. The growing delegitimization of Israel is this country's own handiwork. Should Israel decide to end apartheid, it will return to being legitimate in every respect”, Haaretz, 22 January 2016: http://live.sekindo.com/content/video/splayer/assets/closeBtn.png ).