'God Helps Those Who Help Themselves': Interview with Norman G. Finkelstein http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/sw130710.html

How useful is the apartheid analogy in conveying the realities of Israel's occupation policy?I see no reason to be a quibbler on these points. So many mainstream Israelis now make the comparison, and so many mainstream South Africans make the comparison. The former Israeli Attorney-General Michael Ben-Yair, the former Israeli Ministers of Education Yossi Sarid and Shulamit Aloni, John Dugard, Desmond Tutu, repeated Ha'aretz editorials,

B'Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel . . . all reputable, knowledgeable sources and, most importantly, sources which are either careful in their use of language, or -- in the case of South Africans -- who would be very far from wanting to trivialize their experience. When you have such an overwhelming number of serious, respected scholars and activists making this comparison, I see no reason to dissent.