NYRB: "To designate a system as apartheid, one needs to show that the 'inhumane acts' in question [to quote the Rome Statue's definition] are not temporary byt designed to perpetuate the control and oppression of the inferior group -- indeed to make them permanent"
Michael Sfard, author of the Hebrew-language Occupied from Within: "One must turn off the lights, block ones ears, and lower all the blinds to avoid the conclusion that Israeli rule in the occupied territories [meets that definition]"