'Apartheid Israel' worse than apartheid SA
Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa | 16.07.2006 01:28 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism
The "apartheid Israel state" is worse than the apartheid that was conducted in South Africa, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha said on Monday.
He said Palestinians were being attacked with heavy machinery and tanks used in war, which had never happened in South Africa.
Cosatu and other organisations supporting Palestine have called on government to end diplomatic relations with Israel and establish boycotts and sanctions such as those against apartheid South Africa.
Israel has launched several attacks on Gaza, bombing its main university and firing missiles that have killed Palestinian bystanders.
This follows the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinians.
"We see no justification for this attack," said Palestinian ambassador to South Africa Ali Hamileh.
He said while the whole world was talking about one Israeli soldier, more than 10 000 Palestinians were being kept in Israeli jails.
"My leadership made it clear ... the soldier can be released immediately if Israel responds to mediation. The demand for exchange of prisoners is justified by international law. We are not demanding something unacceptable," he said.
Professor of political science Virginia Tilley said South Africa was one of the only places where a vision had been brought forward to address collective punishment of perceived inferiority.
"I can't imagine a better beacon in that struggle than this country and it has stood back. If there is any moral authority in South Africa, it must come into play now," she said.
Madisha said Israel should be seen as an apartheid state and the same sanctions must be applied that were established against South Africa. -- Sapa
Cosatu and other organisations supporting Palestine have called on government to end diplomatic relations with Israel and establish boycotts and sanctions such as those against apartheid South Africa.
Israel has launched several attacks on Gaza, bombing its main university and firing missiles that have killed Palestinian bystanders.
This follows the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinians.
"We see no justification for this attack," said Palestinian ambassador to South Africa Ali Hamileh.
He said while the whole world was talking about one Israeli soldier, more than 10 000 Palestinians were being kept in Israeli jails.
"My leadership made it clear ... the soldier can be released immediately if Israel responds to mediation. The demand for exchange of prisoners is justified by international law. We are not demanding something unacceptable," he said.
Professor of political science Virginia Tilley said South Africa was one of the only places where a vision had been brought forward to address collective punishment of perceived inferiority.
"I can't imagine a better beacon in that struggle than this country and it has stood back. If there is any moral authority in South Africa, it must come into play now," she said.
Madisha said Israel should be seen as an apartheid state and the same sanctions must be applied that were established against South Africa. -- Sapa
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If only South Africa would clearly condemn Israeli crimes against humanity
16.07.2006 03:41
Well. let's think. A year or so back, a high level Israeli officer was involved in some minor scandal, because he was a senior member of an Israeli government team running a LIVING Human organ stripping operation, illegally 'recruiting' victims in South America, after which they would be flown to a SOUTH AFRICAN hospital to have their organs harvested (the recipients were stated to be Israeli government provided patients, and powerful people from Arab nations).
Such news should not come as a suprise, when a few years earlier, 60 Minutes (or the equivalent news segment show on one of the other main US channels) ran a story about outraged Israelis. Their outrage occured because their organ stripping of LIVING turkish 'paid-volunteers' had to be carried out in Turkey, whereas the Israelis felt they had a right to harvest organs from living Turks in nice 'clean' Israeli hospitals.
South Africa is in the pocket of the UK, US and Israel. Its highest government officials care only about themselves, a consequence of OUR demand that apartheid would only end if the game that followed was played to our rules, and the 'black' elite agreed to keep their mouths closed, and take the money.
It could only have been different in South Africa, if those responsible for the sickening crimes of apartheid had been punished to the same appropriate degree as the nazis, and the serbs. Instead, the 'black' elite agreed to take the pay-off in return for letting the apartheid monsters walk. In fairness, I'm sure they felt they had no choice, but doing a deal with the devil usually means that the devil wins.
Many of the worst apartheid butchers joined Blair's invasion of Iraq. You can only imagine the horrors that these depraved monsters inflicted on the innocent people of that nation, protected against any punishment by the TOTAL IMMUNITY that Goldsmith gave these these racist psychopath murderers.
Today, the terrorists of Israel are engaged in their regular destruction of all significant civilian and governmental facilities owned by the Palestinian victims. As far as Israel is concerned, at the very worst, the Palestinian cause is rolled back 5 years again. And, at the best, maybe 'this time' the world will sit back while they genocide the whole population.
The Lebanon is a consequence of a disgusting racist nation being armed to the teeth, and protected from any moral judgement. As a consequence of this, Israel feels an overwhelming urge to "keep its hand in" by having as many of its young people 'blooded' by the depraved mass murder of innocents whenever possible. Israel WOULD NOT want a generation of citizens reaching maturity without having tasted, first-hand, the zionist pleasure of raining death and destruction on a totally helpless nation. Every good citizen of Israel MUST have been directly responsible for the murder of a non-tribe Human.
Blair instructed the Israeli high-command that they had the green-light to begin their slaughter for somewhat different reasons. Again, at the worst, Blair knows that these events move the Earth a little closer to the temperature at which EVERYTHING burns. At the best, Blair hopes that events will bring Israel into direct conflict with Iran, or alternatively, that obvious muslim anger at Israeli war crimes would enable his massive false flag to be plausibly blamed on Iran, thus allowing its activation.
Anyway, please visit uruknet.info for information about the horrifying situation in Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon that will NEVER appear on this site.
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