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Palestine – Features
French fm mideast peace unlikely by year end
Picture: (AFP/Gali Tibbon)
Tzipi Livni (R) shakes hands with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner prior to their meeting in Jerusalem. Kouchner warned that Israel would strike archfoe Iran before it was able to develop nuclear weapons, in comments published today.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says she doesn’t expect an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement by the end of the year.
U.S. President George W. Bush hosted high-profile peace talks last November in Annapolis, Maryland, and has expressed hope for an agreement by the end of the year. But progress has been limited.
Kouchner urged the international community today to keep pressure on both sides after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Sapa-AP
Joint press release
South Africa’s Condemnation of Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza
The Media Review Network (MRN) and The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) acknowledges Government’s condemnation of the latest air strikes by the Israeli defence force on the desperate and destitute people of Gaza.
This statement is a step in the right direction towards restoring the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self determination and independence The severity of the seige imposed upon the Gazan people is such that mere political rhetoric and lip service cannot bring about the much needed relief to end the tragic unfolding of this humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions. In addition the illegal Zionist regime in occupied Palestine will be building another wall, this time along the border with Egypt, to ensure that no African illegal work or asylum seekers enter the Zionist entity. This is clearly discriminatory and racist.
We believe that it is time the South African Government steps in line with the Tripartite Alliance, who have been supporting the campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against the racist, illegal Zionist regime.
We sadly note the perilous position of the Palestinian people is rapidly deteriorating as a result of the inhuman siege imposed by the Occupying Force. Short of some decisive action by the our Government, the dangers faced by the beleaguered Palestinians will be compounded beyond measure.
Ibrahim Vawda
Senior Researcher,
Media Review Network
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Nabeweya Malick
Public Affairs & Media,
Muslim Judicial Council
Cape Town
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E-mail: pro@mjc.org.za
Better late than never
Asmal’s groundbreaking call for targeting Israel’s legitimacy
By Iqbal Jassat – Chairperson: Media Review Network
While Kader Asmal’s opinion piece “World must deny legitimacy to Israel” [Mail & Guardian, June 25] was welcomed as a breathtakingly courageous call for action against the Zionist entity, unsurprisingly it has also elicited raging howls of complaints from the usual suspects.
However, what I do find quite intriguing is the personal attack David Saks of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies hurls at Asmal. His insulting response as an apologist for Israel is reflective of the increasing difficulty spin-doctors for the usurpers of Palestine have in countering credible and sound analysis.
Accusing Asmal of falsehood and of “standard anti-Israel polemic” and then himself indulging in emotive rhetoric without any reference to the key components of Asmal’s brilliant argument to bring an end to Palestinians’ long ordeal, is a total cop-out!
Asmal, a veteran of the struggle against apartheid and having been closely associated with legal probes into violations of international law by Israel following its invasion of Lebanon in 1980 and the Sabra and Shatila massacres of hundreds of defenceless Palestinian refugees, cannot neither be dismissed as “ignorant”, nor of having a “jaundiced approach”.