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

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**Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-defense-of-the-apartheid-like-system-israel-enforces-in-occupied-settled-disputed-territories/1030314/59 "2026-05-29T08:41:39Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> What are the actual best arguments?

It’s a situation where even the people with the ‘best’ normative arguments–the Zionists–do not actually want the status quo. I’m sure we’re all familiar with the arguments, which are worthless if you are not a Zionist… From that position, the ideal would be for the Palestinian people to relinquish all claims to the land and just go live somewhere else (at their own expense).

It’s kind of like asking Israel to just do the right thing, or asking for a unicorn…

~Max

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