Atlantic Council Ambassador-in-Residence Michael Oren writes for the Los Angeles Times on why he believes Israel is not, nor ever will be, an Apartheid state: 

The war against Israel has passed through three phases.

The first was the attempt to annihilate Israel by conventional means. It began with Israel’s birth in 1948, when Arab armies nearly captured Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and ended in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Israeli forces came within artillery range of Cairo and Damascus.

The next stage, starting in the early 1970s, sought to cripple Israel through terror. Suicide bombers nearly paralyzed the country, but by 2005 they too were defeated.

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