Here's an old (1986) article by Daniel Pipes, of all people, about Israeli segregation. He's all for it. Excerpt: ------------ Separation in Israel extends to all aspects of life. Jews and Arabs not only live apart; they also worship, work, socialize, and play separately. The same American movie might show simultaneously in two theaters in Jerusalem, playing to a wholly Arab audience in one and to an all-Jewish audience in the other. Arabs tend to vote for Arab politicians, Jews for Jewish ones. This pattern is learned young; with the lone exception of Neveh Shalom, * nowhere in Israel do Arab and Jewish children sit in the same classroom. * The Arabic-language telephone directory for Jerusalem highlights another aspect of this segregation. Israel's telephone company does not publish a directory in Arabic, so Arab entrepreneurs have published their own directory for Jerusalem. They omitted all Jewish names and published only Arab names. The assumption behind the omission - that Arabs do not call Jews - implies a great deal about daily life. Source: http://www.danielpipes.org/article/176 "Since the inception of Zionism in the 1860s, Jewish-Arab segregation has been the rule," Pipes says.
Having grown up in apartheid South Africa, and having witnessed the transformation of this country after democratic elections in 1994, reading your post has reminded me of many things long forgotten. The rough translation of apartheid means seperateness, so segregation and apartheid mean pretty much the same thing. The applications also seem quite similar, so imo these two words pretty much mean the same thing. It is quite sad when people can't cooperate, because that is exactly where man's advantage lies!