Support For Israeli Apartheid Analogy
Some commentators including President of the UN General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Naomi Klein and UK MP Gerald Kaufman have suggested sanctions against Israel along the South African model to ultimately improve the situation. Clare Short, minister for international aid in Tony Blair's government`said of sanctions against Israel that "the boycott worked for South Africa, it is time to do it again".
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