My letter to the Washington Post RE Richard Cohen's "Israel has its faults, but apartheid isn't one of them "

RE: "Israel has its faults, but apartheid isn't one of them" by Richard Cohen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030102761.html

Dear Editor,

As long as Israel rules over Palestinian airspace and borders, as long as Israel refuses to fully respect the Palestinian's basic human rights (including but not limited to the Palestinian refugees inalienable right to return)... and as long as Israel has even one soldier or settler in the West Bank and Gaza, Israel is indeed practicing a punitive and cruel apartheid.

If anything the word Apartheid might be a tad too feeble and weak and polite to describe what "Israel-proper" has been doing to the native non-Jewish population of the Holy Land for the past 61 years.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab