‘Despicable lie & smear’: Israel fires back at UN’s ‘apartheid regime’ report

‘Israel has denounced a new UN report which accuses Tel Aviv of crimes against humanity for running “apartheid policies” against the Palestinians. Israel’s UN envoy has called the document an attempt to “falsely label the only true democracy in the Middle East.”
The UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) report published Wednesday accuses Israel “beyond a reasonable doubt” of being guilty of “policies and practices that constitute the crime of apartheid” against the Palestinian people.
The report says that Israel is guilty of pursuing a policy of “strategic fragmentation” of the Palestinians as the “principal method” by which Israel imposes an apartheid regime.
“This fragmentation operates to stabilize the Israeli regime of racial domination over the Palestinians and to weaken the will and capacity of the Palestinian people to mount a unified and effective resistance,” the Beirut-based commission report said.’
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