Bahrein and Apartheid

Ben S. Cohen

Political and Media Analyst

Posted: February 17, 2011 09:26 AM

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Bahrain: The Missing 'A' Word

In all the coverage of the freedom protests in Bahrain, a certain word beginning with the letter 'A' has been strikingly absent.
I don't mean 'autocratic.' Nor 'authoritarian.' Both of those have been invoked, and rightly so.
I refer to the word 'apartheid.' The Afrikaner term for 'separateness,' apartheid prevailed in South Africa from 1948 until 1993, when that country was under white minority rule.

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