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Citizenship law makes Isarael an apartheid state

By Amos Schocken

The government’s decision last week to extend the validity of the Citizenship Law (Temporary Order), for another year, is evidence that the legal barriers preventing severe discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens and harm to their civil rights have been removed.

This extension is the eighth since the law was first passed in 2003, and it shows just how naive Justice Edmond Levy’s position was when he refused to join in the 2006 decision by five judges from the High Court of Justice, who stated that the law was unconstitutional, that it contravened the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Freedom, and that it must be removed from the law books. Levy explained his refusal by saying that he saw no need to intervene because only two months remained until the law expired. However, at the end of the two months, the law was extended by a year, and now they want to extend it for yet another year.

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The consequences of aUSwar crime

Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima

By Tom Elay

(source: World Socialist WebSite)

The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004.

According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by US atomic bomb strikes in 1945.

The epidemiological study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health (IJERPH), also finds the prevalence of these conditions in Fallujah to be many times greater than in nearby nations.

The assault on Fallujah, a city located 43 miles west of Baghdad, was one of the most horrific war crimes of our time. After the population resisted the US-led occupation of Iraq—a war of neo-colonial plunder launched on the basis of lies—Washington determined to make an example of the largely Sunni city. This is called “exemplary” or “collective” punishment and is, according to the laws of war, illegal.

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Kashmir protest victory for democracy India humiliated

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The planned peaceful protest held on Thursday, 27th October 2010, was almost disrupted by officials at the Indian High Commission. They used their political muscle and influence in high office to intimidate the protesters. They even used an official from South African Police Services to bully the peaceful protesters into submission.

Officials of the Indian High Commission asked members of the SAPS to throw the protesters out and to disband the gathering. The convenors of the gathering, Mr. Salman Khan and Mr. Umar Farooq were confronted by the SAPS and asked to leave. Mr. Khan explained that permission to hold the demonstration was granted and that they had every right to hold the protest. They were asked to hold the gathering at a nearby Rose Garden. They refused to do so. The SAPS officer threatened to have them arrested.

Tempers flared and it took the intervention of a senior SAPS Colonel to resolve the impasse. He studied the notification granting the permission and allowed the protest to proceed in front of the Indian High Commission. Viva Democracy!

Officials of the Indian High Commission should realise that civil liberties will not be trampled upon in South Africa as it is commonly done in India.

The Noisy protest group numbered about 50 people. The plight of the oppressed people and their fight for self determination of the Kashmiris was highlighted. In the latest uprising in the Kashmir Valley, July/August/September 2010, 150 civilians were killed by the military and paramilitary forces of the Indian Government.

Mr. Salman Khan said that the Commonwealth Games, currently being held in New Delhi, India, makes a mockery of democracy.

“We have always, right from the beginning accepted the idea of the Kashmiri people deciding their fate by a referendum or plebiscite……………….” Jawaharlal Nehru, in London, January 1951.

These and other sentiments expressed by India’s first Prime Minister have been ignored for six decades.

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