Apartheid

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CONTENTS
Preface 4
I. The State of Apartheid and the Apartheid States 15
1. The Big Picture: Human Rights Violations, Ethnicism and Racism 15
2. The Theoretical Context: Colonialism, Apartheid, and Genocide 23
3. Apartheid in the Narrow Sense (South Africa 1948-1994) 31
4. South African Apartheid Compared 35
Comparisons with Genocidal Societies
‘Life Is All Right in America, If You’re All White in America’ 35
Ethnic Cleansing from the South: Australia and New Zealand 39
Third Reich Racism 41
Comparisons with Other Apartheid Societies
From Zimbabwe to Rhodesia, and Back Again 42
Spanish Mayhem in Guatemala 44
Overboard in Outremer: The Crusaders’ Kingdom of Jerusalem 46
Comparisons with Colonialist Societies
British Destruction in Ireland 50
The Drug Dealers and Squatters of Hong Kong 51
Soviet Oppression 52
Comparisons with Other Kinds of Societies
Taliban ‘Gender Apartheid’ 53
Environmental and Global ‘Apartheid’ 54
Postmodern Racism 55
5. Apartheid in the Wide Sense: A Preliminary Definition 58
6. Differences and Similarities between Apartheid Societies 61
7. Definition of Apartheid in the Wide Sense 67
8. Beyond Postcolonial and Postmodern Theory: The Study of Ethnicism
and Apartheid in the Context of Some Recent Theories of Oppression 70
9. The Historical Frameworks: 77
1. Graeco-Roman Egypt 77
2. South Africa 81
3. Israel 84
My Values and Views on Responsibilities for the Middle East Conflict 92
II. A System of Gross Human Rights Violations 103
Introduction: Apartheid as State of War and Crime against Humanity 103
Escaping International Law and Dividing the Resistance 103
Traumatization and Schizophrenia as Consequences and Aspects
of Apartheid 106
Love and Cooperation versus Crimes against Humanity,
and Worse 109
1. Violence 111
1.1. Invasions, Uprisings, Clampdowns, Female Infanticide
and Genital Mutilation 114
1.2. Firearms, Stabbing Spears, the ‘Medical Battalion’, and
‘Witch’-burnings 119
1.3. Death Squads, Torture, Weapons of Mass Destruction,
Suicide Attacks, and ‘Honor’ Killings 128