US aid for Israel is in sight! Apartheid's days are numbered!

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All US aid for Israel could be ended. This was actually voted on in the United States House of Representatives. The end is in sight.

The United States could end its support for the Israeli military state. This could be the beginning of the end of the Apartheid Israeli state.

There is a model for this.

In Spring 1985 a set of campus protests took place in which university students, including at my alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, demanded their institution divest itself of funds in South Africa in order to press for the end of Apartheid. Students set up shantytowns. Also including Columbia University and many others. Hundreds of students were arrested. It was a big topic everywhere. Over the course of the movement, hundreds were arrested as protesters built shantytowns and organized boycotts. In July, Berkeley's governing board voted to divest; Columbia did so in October of that year. A movement that started in 1976 (Hampshire College) led to divestment by the governing boards of 155 colleges and universities in the United States.

On October 2, 1986, the United States Congress, overriding President Reagan's veto, ended support for Apartheid.

Negotiations to end the Apartheid regime began in 1990.

South Africa remains and its European residents remain citizens. Most did not leave. Despite the country's problems.

Americans took the lead. Student protesters took personal risks.

No two situations are alike. But the parallels are enough to warrant the claim: The end of a Jewish state and its replacement by a democratic state belonging legally and fully to all of its residents, with the question of managing claims of a right of return to residents of this territory displaced by the Jewish state to be negotiated and determined in the only way proper, which is by all parties concerned - this is within sight.

There is no other acceptable solution.

Certainly the withdrawal of US financial support for the Israeli military state may not itself suffice. But without American support, Israel may be pressured to negotiate a peace, instead of continuing its project of mass murder.