Autor podlinkowanego materiału, Anthony Fulton, żyjący w kibucu na terenie Górnej Galilei - w kontekście niedawno opublikowanego raportu Amnesty International o izraelskim apartheidzie w stosunku do zamieszkującej Izrael ludności palestyńskiej - stawia intrygującą tezę, że Izrael jest państwem "granicznych osadników" (frontier state), które jako takie celowo nie chce formalnie i jednoznacznie zdefiniować swych granic aby móc kontynuować swoją ekspansję. Zainteresowanych problemem - odsyłam do podlinkowanego materiału. "So, where is the State of Israel? Exactly? There seems to be no consensus other than a tacit commitment to a frontier state. At some point, someone worked out that annexation, in the formal sense, is unnecessary. Indeed, it’s undesirable if it leads to citizenship for all the Palestinians between the river and the sea. Fifty-plus years of "temporary" occupation essentially boil down to de facto annexation. This is plain to see unless you’re a committed apartheid denialist. When you build houses, roads, a university, you are planning to stay. The West Bank is already Israel if we are to go by the investment, the notion of "state land," the "legal" settlements and their madly elaborate infrastructure. The fact is that all Israelis living within the current fluid borders can live a normal life and vote. Approximately 4.8 million Palestinians cannot and have not been able to for over 50 years. It is in this context that the likes of Amnesty International are publishing reports which dare to use the term apartheid. If Israel is perceived as an apartheid state, then there is a link to this frontierism, to choices made by Israeli voters regarding borders. You can’t defend Israel against such accusations if you do not consider the West Bank to be "abroad." The evidence of the last fifty years suggests that Israel is a frontier settler state set on expansion beyond "indefensible" pre-1967 borders. How long can Palestinians live within these frontiers without rights? The international community and many Israeli citizens seem happy to avoid". original.a(*)rael-a-country-without-border/ | 
