It's Thursday, February 10, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

We're back to the international scene today, but the issue is Israel.

And the headline is that the group known as Amnesty International

has produced a near 300 page report accusing

Israel of being at its essence an apartheid state and thus they mean a criminal

state. Now as you look at this you recognize that this is an extremely serious charge,

but I also realize that there would be many people, especially younger listeners,

who might not know the term, apartheid. Apartheid is a term that goes back to Dutch influence but it goes back in

particular to South Africa and to the years of official apartheid that means

race separation by law with coercion and imprisonment for

breaking the laws but it also means the historic context of the dominance of the

majority African population by white settlers coming most importantly

from the Netherlands and that means the Boer people in particular and

also from the British and so what you had was a British colonial elite and a Dutch farming

colonial elite that had control over the entire society of South Africa and passed a set of laws intended to keep the

races absolutely separate to such an extent that there were areas designated for the African

population and then for the Dutch or for the so-called

white population.

It was a criminal act for any black person to buy property in a white designated area. It was a criminal act for any white person to sell property

to a black person in a white designated area. It was also illegal for white people to buy property

in the black designated areas.

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