"Nothing can prepare you for the evil we have seen here."
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Gideon Levy, journalist with the IsraeliEnglish-language daily paper Ha'aretz writes things that virtually no paper in the US would dare print for the outcry among Zionists (Jews and Christians) it would elicit.
In this link he reports on the visit of 21 South African human rights activists to the Palestinian Occupied Territories:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1000976.html
Excert:
She was deputy defense minister from 1999 to 2004; in 1987 she served time in prison. Later, I asked her in what ways the situation here is worse than apartheid. "The absolute control of people's lives, the lack of freedom of movement, the army presence everywhere, the total separation and the extensive destruction we saw."
Madlala-Routledge thinks that the struggle against the occupation is not succeeding here because of U.S. support for Israel - not the case with apartheid, which international sanctions helped destroy. Here, the racist ideology is also reinforced by religion, which was not the case in South Africa. "Talk about the 'promised land' and the 'chosen people' adds a religious dimension to racism which we did not have."
Equally harsh are the remarks of the editor-in-chief of the Sunday Times of South Africa, Mondli Makhanya, 38. "When you observe from afar you know that things are bad, but you do not know how bad. Nothing can prepare you for the evil we have seen here. In a certain sense, it is worse, worse, worse than everything we endured. The level of the apartheid, the racism and the brutality are worse than the worst period of apartheid.
In this link he reports on the visit of 21 South African human rights activists to the Palestinian Occupied Territories:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1000976.html
Excert:
She was deputy defense minister from 1999 to 2004; in 1987 she served time in prison. Later, I asked her in what ways the situation here is worse than apartheid. "The absolute control of people's lives, the lack of freedom of movement, the army presence everywhere, the total separation and the extensive destruction we saw."
Madlala-Routledge thinks that the struggle against the occupation is not succeeding here because of U.S. support for Israel - not the case with apartheid, which international sanctions helped destroy. Here, the racist ideology is also reinforced by religion, which was not the case in South Africa. "Talk about the 'promised land' and the 'chosen people' adds a religious dimension to racism which we did not have."
Equally harsh are the remarks of the editor-in-chief of the Sunday Times of South Africa, Mondli Makhanya, 38. "When you observe from afar you know that things are bad, but you do not know how bad. Nothing can prepare you for the evil we have seen here. In a certain sense, it is worse, worse, worse than everything we endured. The level of the apartheid, the racism and the brutality are worse than the worst period of apartheid.
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piecesofpeace
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if only terrorists would give way to civility thier people wouldnt be criminaly suspect
- 2 years ago
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piecesofpeace
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Saladin
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Not surprising.
Israel disgusts me.
- 3 years ago
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Saladin
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JustPeace4Pal
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I tried to caption the photo credit, but did not succeed.
Please note the photo of the two roads is by Anna Baltzer, Jewish American, author of the book Witness in Palestine.
- 3 years ago
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JustPeace4Pal
