The age of global apartheid: A dark history that links America and Israel

Frida Ghitis: Some of history's worst atrocities can be attributed to people trying to control other people’s movements.

She says the U.S. and Israel share the idea that some people have the right to move themselves as they desire while moving others against their will.

Ghitis writes: Forcing people to move or prohibiting their mobility are two sides of the same colonial or neocolonial coin.

In the U.S. , people of color are full citizens and can no longer, as a group, be legally enclosed or removed against their will.

Meanwhile, Israel created its own legal version of apartheid, with those Palestinians who were not expelled increasingly surrounded by prisons and walls.

In the older settler colonial countries, the days of Trails of Tears , imprisonment on reservations, the forced removal of children to boarding schools are mostly in the past.

Frida Ghitis : Trump administration's repressive treatment of immigrants includes endless border militarization, deportations.

She says U.S. and Israel share colonial importation-deportation-incarceration regimes intertwined in many ways.

Ghitis says Trump 's proposal to take Gaza and eliminate its population expresses his own (and Israel 's) settler-colonial dream for the "elimination of the native".