Citizen G'kar: Musings on Earth

May 14, 2007

Sometimes The Truth Hurts

Despite the suffering the Jews experienced under the black cloud of fascism, the treatment they have imposed on the Palestinians has been compared many times to apartheid in So. Africa and fascism. Here, a South African who should know says the occupation of Palestine has been worse than apartheid.
Citizen.co.za
South African Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils Thursday accused Israel of conducting a policy against the Palestinians that was worse than apartheid.


Speaking on the sidelines of a UN meeting on the situation in the Palestinian territories, Kasrils said South Africa’s townships had never been attacked by helicopter gunships and tanks, in contrast to the military means employed by Israel.
“The analogy between apartheid and Israel’s occupation of Palestine is often made. It is not the same thing. The occupation is absolutely worse,” Kasrils told reporters.


“It is important that we tell the Israeli authorities they are behaving like fascists when they do certain things, although we are not calling it a fascist state.”


Kastrils called on the United States and European Union to lift their economic and political embargo of the Palestinian Authority now that Hamas and Fatah have joined in a government of national unity.

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