23 March 2007

State of apartheid

A United Nations expert, critically from South Africa, has compared the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine to the state of South Africa under apartheid. To quote John Dugard:

"anyone who experienced apartheid has a sense of deja vu when visiting the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories)."

Predictably Israeli's representative, Itzhak Levanon said that the report was "utterly one-sided, highly selective, and unreservedly biased". One suspects that this would have been acceptable if only the bias had been in favour of the Jewish state.

So far there has been no comment from US ex-President Jimmy Carter.

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