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Monday, 03 September 2007 |
Apartheid is Apartheid - except in Israel
- What happens when a former US President refers to Israel as an Apartheid state? He gets called an antisemite!
- What happens when a Jewish Professor at a Catholic University says the same thing? He is denied tenure.
- Now, what happens when an Israeli journalist says the same thing at an International Conference? He is denied the right to speak.
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More "rules of engagement"
'Three more Palestinian children were slaughtered by Israelis this week. The mis-named IDF, like the U.S. military, blamed the victims (referring to "use of children in terror attacks") in the immediate aftermath of the attack, but has now admitted that the three (ages 10, 10, and 12) were just playing tag.
I make note of this latest in a long line of such incidents because of what this particular one says about Israeli "rules of engagement" -- an Israeli missile was fired, we're told, after troops detected "unidentified movement and opened fire." Unidentified movement. Movement in Gaza, not in Israel.'
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