One thing is clear, we are not allowed to call this apartheid:
The settlers benefit from a two-tier legal system in which settlers who commit violence are rarely punished, while Palestinian suspects are frequently arrested and prosecuted by military courts. Of the 111 police investigations into settler attacks monitored by the Israeli rights group Yesh Din in the past five years, only three led to indictments.Settlers, unlike Palestinians, have the protection of the military and are rarely in danger of losing the land they live on.
A lot has changed in the 16 years since Jimmy Carter came out with a book that used the a-word in the title and exploded into charges of anti-semitism. Every Israeli human rights group regularly compares the Israeli system in the West Bank to apartheid. It's no longer unusual for my Israeli friends to use the term about their own country. The only place where the comparison is still taboo seems to be in the mainstream American media.
