# What is the best defense of the apartheid-like system Israel enforces in occupied/settled/disputed territories?

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> [@Max\_S](#):
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> Would it help if I wrote, “The best defense would not assign a subjugated people collective blame for moral atrocities against its oppressors, nor widespread support of the same as part of a broader rebellion”?
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> ~Max

The issue is Palestinians are not fighting for freedom. They are fighting for a racially and religiously pure ethnostate. Even if they got one, they’d just turn on each other over ethnic divisions and divisions within islam.

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